Human Rights Watch urged Russia to drop separatism charges against Umerov and provide him with necessary medical treatment.
Ukraine’s Supreme Rada on Monday urged Umerov’s immediate release, calling his detention an example of “systematic repression of freedom” of Crimean Tatars.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin likened the treatment of Umerov to Soviet-era trials of dissidents, saying that “punitive psychiatry is a throwback” to Soviet secret police tactics. …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
