Crimean Tatar activist taken to emergency care after being detained in Crimea
Crimean Tatar national movement activist Bekir Degermendzhi, who was detained on November 23 in Simferopol, was taken to the detention center’s intensive care unit, his lawyer Edem Semedlyaev said on Facebook.
"Bekir Degermendzhi ended up in intensive care. According to doctors, his condition is extremely difficult. For five days, we demanded that he be transferred to the hospital to provide qualified medical care, but we were assured that they would handle it,” Semedlyaev wrote.
"If you get seriously ill in Simferopol’s remand center, your only option is to be put into the center’s intensive care facility," he added.
Degermendzhi was detained on November 23 along with several Crimean Tatar activists on charges of extorting $7,000 from a citizen of Turkey, Yusuf Aitana.
During their detention, a veteran of the national movement of the Crimean Tatars, Vedzhie Kashka began to feel ill. She died in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.