On July 23, 19-year-old Apaz Kurtamet left from Novooleksiyivka to Crimea. On that day, the queue at the checkpoint “Chongar” was small. People overcame it in 2 hours. The connection with Appaz disappeared during the crossing, and for more than a month nothing has been known about the guy. A day after the disappearance of Appaz Kurtamet, his mother was called from an unfamiliar number. Aysche Courtamet heard only one phrase:

- Your son is very gray.

Without giving any details, the stranger broke off the conversation.

From the border service of the FSB of Russia, the mother received a reference answer: “Apaz Kurtametov crossed the “border”.

A day after the stranger's call on July 25, Aysche noticed that Apase's profile glows “online” in all social networks. She begged her son to answer something. Messages have been read. There was no answer.

The online spectacle of the occupiers kidnapping his son was repeated twice more: they entered the pages of Appaz on August 15 and 25.

Through relatives in Crimea, the Appaz family sent requests to the occupation police and the detention center. From everywhere they answered: they do not have a person with such a name and surname.

Relatives have found a way to track the location of the guy or at least his phone.

Simkart is physically located on Ivan Franko Boulevard in Akmesdzhita (Simferopol). Until 2014, this building belonged to the main Crimean department of the SBU. After the annexation, the peninsula signage was changed to the FSB, and 80% of the officers betrayed the oath and switched to the side of the enemy. Traitors are particularly zealous in repressing Crimean Tatars and pro-Ukrainian inhabitants of Crimea.

Appaz's mother wrote about her son in the chats of telegram channels, where they exchange information about trips to the Crimea.

Through one of these chats, she was contacted by a woman whose son had experienced a similar story. She suggested that Apaz was in a filtration camp.

This term Russians call modern concentration camps that appeared in Crimea immediately after the occupation. People say that those who find themselves in such a place “fell into the basement.”

A correspondent for UA SOUTH learned the details of imprisonment in one of these camps. Prisoners live for two in a room without windows. They are not released anywhere, phones and watches are taken away. In the dark, the sense of time disappears in people. They are taken to the toilet with a bag on their heads and held hands. Every few days or weeks, Russian checkers bring a person into a separate room and turn on their mobile phone. This is a hunt for information. If the prisoner is written something, he is connected to a polygraph and interrogated.

Information about such treatment of prisoners of the filtration camps was confirmed by another resident of Akmeszhiti (Simferopol), who spent “in the basement” for about a month, and when he went free, realized that he was kept in the FSB building on Ivan Franko Boulevard.

Before his disappearance, Appaz Kurtamet worked in an IT company and taught the Crimean Tatar language in the cultural center of Odessa. On August 19, he turned 20 years old.

Aysche congratulated her son with the hope that he was reading her message. There is still no answer from Appaz.

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