A 'Crimean Solidarity' activist. On 27 March 2019, he was detained after a search and the next day taken into custody on charges of organising activities of a terrorist organisation. Sent to a pre-trial detention centre in the Rostov region, later transferred back to Crimea. In March 2020, it transpired that Suleymanov was also accused of preparing to overthrow the constitutional order. In August, it became known that the charge of organising the activities of a terrorist organisation was reclassified to participation in such activities. On 24 November 2022, he was sentenced to 14 years in a strict regime corrective colony. In December 2023, it transpired that Suleymanov had not been receiving his purchases from the commissary. 'Suleymanov repeatedly sought medical help due to his congenital heart defect and tachycardia. The doctor came to him only once, offering motherwort and glycine. The political prisoner refused both medications. When he asked for a non-alcohol-based drug, the doctors said they had none' (https://crimean-solidarity.org/news/2023/11/10/grazhdanskij-zhurnalist-ruslan-sulejmanov-pozhalovalsya-na-bezdejstvie-vrachej-2796). In June <2020>, Ruslan Suleymanov was admitted (https://hromadske.ua/posts/v-aneksovanomu-krimu-gromadyanskogo-zhurnalista-na-misyac-vidpravili-do-psihiatrichnoyi-likarni) to a psychiatric hospital in Crimea, where he underwent a compulsory month-long forensic psychiatric examination. 'We are deeply disturbed by reports that a journalist in Crimea has been sent to undergo compulsory psychiatric examination for a month. We call on Russia to immediately cease its human rights abuses in Crimea and withdraw from Ukrainian territory,' the U.S. Embassy said (https://twitter.com/USEmbassyKyiv/status/1276094477774589952) at the time. In July, Ruslan's lawyer Lilya Gemeji said that her client had been diagnosed (https://krymsos.com/news/5f0d6572a5f6a/) with a heart defect. More about the abuse and mistreatment: On 26 July, a three-year-old Musa Suleymanov, a son of Crimean political prisoner Ruslan Suleymanov, a defendant in the second Simferopol 'Hizb ut-Tahrir case,' was found dead (https://hromadske.ua/ru/posts/v-anneksirovannom-krymu-nashli-mertvym-trehletnego-syna-politzaklyuchennogo-musu-sulejmanova-kotorogo-razyskivali-3-dnya) in the annexed Crimea after a three-day search. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin raised the issue (https://hromadske.ua/ru/posts/zelenskij-obsudil-s-putinym-osvobozhdeniya-politzaklyuchennogo-sulejmanova-ego-trehletnego-syna-nashli-mertvym-v-krymu) of releasing the political prisoner Suleymanov, who was being held in a detention centre in the annexed Crimea. Ruslan's lawyer had sent an appeal to the FSB investigators asking them to release him to attend the memorial service for his son, but to no avail. A memorial service for the boy was organised.