FSB “suggests” Crimean defender for confessing terrorism – lawyer

The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) suggests a member of the Crimean Contact Group on Human Rights, Emir-Usein Kuku, who was arrested in February, for admitting his guilt.

Lawyer Oleksandr Popkov, who visited the human rights activist in a remand prison, posted this on Facebook.

“Emir looks somehow tired and low-spirited or something, I do not know, so it seemed. The conditions there are bad, to put it mildly. Nobody touches him physically. Sometimes, FSB officer Kompaniets comes to him to tell about the benefits of honest confession. Emir indignantly and thoroughly tells about search, about his job, about the senseless and groundless charge,” Popkov wrote.

Emir-Usein Kuku and another four Crimean residents were arrested on 11 February.