Биография:
Citizen journalist, streamer of the Crimean Solidarity public association, has been imprisoned for political reasons in the Russian Federation since March 2019. Computer science teacher by profession.
Lived in Simferopol. Since 2015, he covered human rights violations in Crimea, helped to send parcels to Crimean Tatar prisoners in pre-trial detention centers. In 2019, he received a special Words of Freedom prize at the Crimean fig/Qırım inciri literary competition, and his short story “My Deportation” was shortlisted in the nomination “Prose in the Ukrainian language”.
In March 2019, Russian security forces arrested him in the town of Aksay (Rostov region, Russia), and searched his home. Trumped-up charges – participating in the activities of a terrorist organization and preparing for a violent seizure of power – were brought against Osman Arifmemetov. He is held in a pre-trial detention center in Rostov-on-Don. On August 16, 2022, a prosecutor requested the court to sentence Arifmemetov to 16.5 years in prison. On 24 November, the Southern District Military Court of Russia sentenced Arifmemetov to 14 years in prison, with the first four years to be served in prison and the remaining term in a maximum security colony. He is being held in a pre-trial detention centre in Novocherkassk while the appeal is pending.
