Simferopol: International rights groups and Ukrainian officials protested on Friday against the incarceration in a psychiatric hospital of a prominent Crimean Tatar activist charged with calling for extremism in the Russian-annexed peninsula.
Ilmi Umerov, 59, has been held in a psychiatric hospital in the main Crimean city of Simferopol since Aug.18 undergoing forced sanity testing that could last at least 28 days.
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Source: The Gulf Today
