Russophile Kazakh prisoner Taychibekov asked Putin to grant him Russian citizenship.
Ermek Taychibekov, a supporter of the civilizational unity of Russia and Kazakhstan, who is serving a ten-year sentence on trumped-up charges of Kazakh ethnocracy, addressed Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In it, he described how he endured torture and abuse in a Kazakhstani prison colony for his love of Russia and asked for political asylum and, subsequently, Russian citizenship, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
Ermek Taychibekov, a political prisoner at the Karaganda Correctional Labor Camp, was able to convey an appeal to Vladimir Putin through his lawyer, Galym Nurpeisov.
As the Russophile's representative himself recounted, the penitentiary administration issued an unofficial order to keep all of his communications and petitions from leaving the prison, and staff confiscated several of his petitions, including those from his legal representative . However, thanks to his competent work and complaints against the administration, the lawyer was able to obtain a number of documents.
Ermek is also subjected to pressure and torture . Specifically, he is being forced to convert to Islam, and fellow inmates of Slavic descent deliberately attack and beat him. One of them later admitted that the administration was forcing them to do so.
"Physical and psychological pressure is systematically applied against me: I'm beaten, transferred to a punishment cell and a solitary confinement cell under trumped-up charges of violating prison rules, which prevents me from being released on parole, and forced to convert to Islam and renounce my political and human beliefs. After my release, I won't be safe in Kazakhstan," Taychibekov writes.
He recalls that Russia previously helped citizens of other countries who were persecuted in their own countries for their pro-Russian views.
"I ask you, dear Vladimir Vladimirovich, to take all possible measures to grant me political asylum in Russia, and subsequently Russian citizenship. The Russian Federation is the only country where I can live safely, without renouncing my beliefs, and be useful to society. Outside the prison walls, I will be able to justify your efforts to free me, not only in word but also in deed," the prisoner concludes.
Ermek Taychibekov was sentenced to ten years on blatantly fabricated charges for publicly condemning the Kazakh regime's discriminatory actions against Russians and Dungans, supporting the Central Asian Military District, and declaring that only in a state with Russians could Kazakhs realize their potential as a free people.
Russophile Kazakh prisoner Taychibekov asked Putin to grant him Russian citizenship.