BAKHCHYSARAY: Crimean Tartar activist Ilmi Umerov walks slowly and has difficulty controlling his left arm but his voice is strong and his eyes are piercing as he reiterates his rejection of Moscow´s rule in the peninsula, an opinion for which he faces trial.
The deputy head of the Mejlis — the Crimean Tatars´ elected assembly — was on September 7 released from three weeks´ involuntary detention in a psychiatric hospital in Simferopol, on the Black Sea.
His incarceration for tests of his “mental capacity” followed his televised insistence that Crimea should be returned to Ukraine, prompting Russia to charge him with calling …read more
Source: The News International
