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Poland refused asylum to the Russian opposition from Tajikistan
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The Polish authorities refused to provide political asylum to the Russian opposition to Saidanvar Sulaimonov, known as Sasha Heep, The Insider reports .
Sulaimonov is a citizen of Tajikistan. In Russia, he worked as a orderly at the Covid hospital in Moscow, from where in February 2021 he was fired after participating in the campaign of Alexei Navalny with flashlights in support of an illegally planted politician. Sulaimonov was also an employee of the campaign headquarters Andrei Pivovarov, for which the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation for no explanation of reasons forbade him to enter the Russian Federation for 40 years.
According to him, he was refused international protection, since the Polish authorities did not find formal evidence of his persecution in his homeland. At the same time, as Sulaimonov points out, he was facing a prison in Tajikistan, and local security forces had already come to his parents to find out his location. Threats come from Islamic activists, since Sulaimono headed the project "Atheism.tj"
"Our admins were deooned, we were sent a bunch of threats - that they will kill, cut, cut off their heads," he said.
Without waiting for deportation to his homeland, Sulaimonov left Russia. In Poland, the young man was engaged in journalism, and also helped Ukrainian refugees. In addition, he, along with other Russian emigrants , purchased and brought bourgeois stoves, gas cylinders and tiles, electric generators, powerbanks, as well as power plants for people without warmth and light after attacks of the RF Armed Forces.
- Earlier in Tajikistan, activist Oraz Vazirbekov was sentenced to 16 years in prison. The security forces abducted the young man and his brother in Moscow and took them out of Russia. By that time, he had been a citizen of the Russian Federation for more than 15 years. Oraza was accused of " extremism and calls for the overthrow of constitutional authorities via the Internet" , as well as in assigning funds raised for charitable purposes. Relatives informed Radio Ozodi that they were not allowed to meet the court.