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Mansur Mirovalev

As Islam grows in Russia, Muslim prisoners struggle to practise their faith

Nariman Dzhelyal, a Crimean community leader, met UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy and his then-US counterpart Antony Blinken in Ukraine last year [File: Leon Neal/Pool via Reuters]

After arriving in a frigid Siberian jail in November 2023, Nariman Dzhelyal ate nothing but bread and gruel.

The bespectacled, bearded Crimean Tatar community leader is a devout Muslim. He said most of the meals he was served contained pork, the consumption of which is forbidden in Islam.

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