Detention centre of the Russian Federation in the occupied Crimea is vacated for detainees from mainland Ukraine - mass media

Alyona Mazurenko - Tuesday, March 22, 2022, 21:59

Simferopol pre-trial detention centre wards in the occupied Crimea are being vacated for prisoners from the territories of mainland Ukraine currently occupied by Russian troops.

Source: "Crimea. Realities", Vladyslav Yesypenko convicted in the annexed Crimea, lawyer Mykola Polozov

Details: Nariman Dzhelyal (Dzhelyalov - according to documents), brothers Asan and Aziz Akhtemov - who were involved in the "case of sabotage on the gas pipeline" and are also held in this detention centre - managed to talk to Vladyslav Yesypenko, according to Mykola Polozov.

Mykola Polozov, Verbatim: "The ‘monastery’ (detention centre building where women are held) is vacating a whole floor, according to Vladyslav. Prisoners detained there are transferred and crowded into other cells, in order to detain new prisoners from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, in particular Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk oblasts."

Vladyslav Yesypenko also said that Ukrainian prisoner Konstantin Shiring, convicted of espionage, had been taken from the pre-trial detention centre to a prison. It is currently unknown where exactly he would be kept incarcerated.

It is currently impossible to verify this information from other sources, according to the reports.