Russian authorities freed a prominent Crimean dissident from a psychiatric clinic on Wednesday after he was held there for almost a month and subjected to enforced examinations, his lawyer and a colleague said; but he still faces a possible jail sentence.
Ilmi Umerov, deputy head of the Crimean Tatars’ semi-official Mejlis legislature, which was suspended by Moscow after it annexed the peninsula from Ukraine in 2014, was committed to compulsory psychiatric testing by local authorities in August.
Western countries, including Britain and the United States, had called for Umerov’s release, and rights activists had accused Russia of reviving the Soviet practice of …read more
Source: Voice of America
