Poland deported an ex-FSB employee who requested asylum

Poland deported Emran Navruzbekov, a former employee of the counterintelligence division of the FSB in Dagestan, to Russia, who fled the country in 2017, publicly spoke about the fabrication of “terrorist affairs” by the department, handed over relevant documents to the public, and then asked the Polish authorities for political asylum.

The court in Poland considered that the former FSB employee poses a threat to the country’s security.

According to Navruzbekov’s wife, who is in Poland, the country’s law enforcement agencies did not wait for the court to consider the appeal against the decision on deportation filed by her husband. At the same time, Navruzbekova herself and the spouses’ children were granted asylum.

According to SOTA telegram channel, after Emran Navruzbekov was handed over to the Russian side on the border with the Kaliningrad region, communication with him was lost. The lawyer of the deported Dagestani, Karina Moskalenko, believes that he is at risk of death in Russia.

Ranee Navruzbekov twice requested political asylum in Poland. Having received a refusal on the first request, he appealed against it. Since October last year, the former FSB officer was in a refugee camp in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship. Navruzbekov was detained on May 17. The reason was their alleged violation of the rules of behavior in the camp and disobeying the requirements of police officers. The detainee denied his guilt.

• Last year, a court in Warsaw decided to deport Chechen refugee Alva Akyev to Russia, while previously admitting that he may be tortured after returning to his family. Also last year, at the request of Russia, Magomed Zubagirov, a 30-year-old Dagestani fleeing the war in Ukraine, was detained in Poland. After his deportation to Moscow, he was placed in a pre-trial detention center, where he is still.