The Crimean political prisoner Appaz Kurtamet has been transferred to a correctional colony in the Pskov region.

The youngest political prisoner from Crimea, Appaz Kurtamet, has been sentenced to seven years in prison by an illegal Russian court for allegedly “financing the Armed Forces of Ukraine” and has been transferred to the Pskov region in Russia.

This was reported by the convicted man's mother – Aysha Kurtamet on her Facebook page.

“…we received a letter from Appaz; he has arrived at the camp where he will stay until his release, IK-6 in the Pskov region,” she wrote.

According to her, Appaz is asking everyone to write to him at this address or to her personally, and she will forward those letters to him. Aysha urges people not to forget her son and to write to him, as it encourages him, distracts him from despair, and fills the limited communication within the prison walls.

Earlier, ZMINA, citing Aysha Kurtamet, reported that at the end of November, Appaz was in transit in Nizhny Novgorod.

Appaz Kurtamet is 22 years old. Before the full-scale war, he worked in an IT company and was also a teacher of the Crimean Tatar language at the Crimean Tatar Cultural Center in Odessa. The occupiers illegally detained Appaz in July 2022 in the village of Novoalekseevka in the Kherson region.

Since then, communication with the young man has been cut off. His family did not know where he was for several months until Appaz called his mother from a pre-trial detention center in temporarily occupied Simferopol.

In April 2023, the occupying court in Simferopol sentenced the young man to seven years in a penal colony on charges of “financing terrorism” (Part 1 of Article 208 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). According to the occupiers, Kurtamet is allegedly involved in financing a Ukrainian volunteer battalion.

It is worth noting that Appaz's father, 58-year-old Khalil Kurtamet, was sentenced by the illegally established “Genichesk District Court” created by Russia to eight years in prison for allegedly participating in the “Crimean Tatar Volunteer Battalion named after Noman Çelebicihan.”