Blind political prisoner Alexander Sizikov from Crimea has been transferred to Yeniseisk in the Krasnoyarsk region.

The blind political prisoner from Crimea, Alexander Sizikov, who was unlawfully sentenced by the occupying authorities to 17 years in prison, has been transferred to a prison in the city of Yeniseisk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, which is over 5,500 kilometers away from his home.

This was reported by the public initiative “Crimean Solidarity.”

In a letter to his lawyer, the Kremlin prisoner detailed his transfer. According to Sizikov, he arrived in the city of Novosibirsk on January 22. There, he was informed that he was being taken to Yeniseisk, where he was expected to arrive on January 28.

Alexander Sizikov is a participant in the “fourth Bakhchisaray case” of “Hizb ut-Tahrir.” He was born on October 12, 1984, in Simferopol and later moved with his family to the village of Turgenyevka in the Bakhchisaray district, where he attended the local school. In 2002, he enrolled at the Sevastopol National Technical University in the Department of Automation and Computer-Integrated Technologies.

After graduating, he found work, although not in his field: he worked in construction. Later, he became an assistant operator at a gas station in Sevastopol. In 2006, he converted to Islam.

In June 2009, Sizikov was hit by a car while riding his bicycle. That same year, Alexander was granted a first group disability status. Since then, he has received assistance in his daily life from villagers and Imam Edem Smailov, until the Imam himself was detained by the FSB and accused of terrorism.

Unable to come to terms with the Imam's arrest, Sizikov, with the help of two elderly women, participated in solitary protests in April 2019, May 2020, and attended court hearings.

Alexander was detained on July 7, 2020, following searches at his friends' homes. The FSB claims that Sizikov “established a terrorist cell of Hizb ut-Tahrir in 2015,” and that Alim Sufyanov and Seyran Khayredinov became members of this cell. As evidence of Sizikov's guilt, the Russian security service presented books related to the religious-political organization found during the search. However, they are not printed in Braille.

The unlawful “judge” of the Kyiv District Court in Simferopol, Olga Kuznetsova, chose house arrest as a measure of restraint on the day of the Ukrainian citizen's detention.

On October 14 of the same year, the “court” decided to send Sizikov for a month-long inpatient forensic psychiatric examination at the Sevastopol City Psychiatric Hospital.

On September 14, 2024, the occupying police took Sizikov from his home and transported him to an unknown location. Prior to this, he had been under house arrest.

The day before, on September 13, the appellate military court in the Moscow region of Vlasikha issued a sentence of 17 years in prison for the political prisoner. However, the authorities did not show any documents with a wet seal at the time of Sizikov's arrest.

The medical unit of the Simferopol SIZO-1 refused to accept documents regarding the political prisoner’s health status.

Earlier, ZMINA reported that the political prisoner, a Muslim from the Bakhchisaray district of Crimea, Alexander Sizikov, had been transferred from Crimea to a Russian prison, despite his visual impairment. His family was not informed of his exact destination at that time.