25 July 2024

The Occupiers Are Illegally Transferring Enver Omerov, a 62-year-old Political Prisoner, to a Strict Regime Colony in the Mari El Republic of the Russian Federation

Activist and public figure Enver Omerov, who was illegally sentenced to 18 years in prison by the occupiers, is being transferred unlawfully from prison №2 in Vladimir, Russia, where he was kept for two years and a half, to a high-security colony in the Republic of Mari El, Russia. The man is in transit to Detention Center No. 19 in Kazan, Russia. 

On July 10, 2019, the Russian security forces detained Enver Omerov when he and his daughter were on their way to a “court” hearing against his son-in-law, Crimean political prisoner Rustem Ismailov. Enver was falsely accused of “terrorism” and found guilty in the so-called “Bilohirsk group case.” On that day, the occupiers detained his son Riza Omerov after searching; later, Riza Omerov was sentenced to serve 13 years in prison. So, three family members at once underwent persecution on political, religious, and ethnic grounds.