Lawyer Oleksandr Popkov says a hunger-striking political prisoner awaiting trial, Crimean Tatar human rights activist Emir-Huseyn Kuku, has been gone from the pre-trial detention facility in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don.
“Lawyer Loktev who arrived in the pre-trial detention center was denied access [to the prisoner] on the pretext that Kuku had been taken away. They don’t say where [they have taken him]. Emir has been on hunger strike for 14 days in support of [Oleh] Sentsov. The source is lawyer Sergei Loktev,” Popkov wrote on Facebook.
