Tagir Minibayev

Affiliated media: Journalist

Incident date: June 30, 2022

Attack type:

• Administrative arrest, remand, pre-trial detention, prison

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Idel.Realities

Location: Greece, Xanthi

Additional information:

Journalist Tagir Minibayev was detained in Greece two months ago while delivering humanitarian aid for Ukraine from Germany. «I left Germany via Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, and Italy. I was going to take a ferry to Turkey from Greece. At the Turkish border, Greek border guards stopped me», Minibayev said. — My international passports were left in Ukraine. I only had my internal passport, a document of political asylum in Ukraine, and proof of temporary residency in Germany. The police promised to quickly sort things out, but I have been in pre-trial detention in Xanthi for two months now. Minibayev left Russia because of persecution in 2014. He was in the process of seeking political asylum in Germany.