Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Ilmi Umerov has not been released from a mental hospital, his lawyer Mark Feygin said. As reported, on May 12, investigators at the Crimean branch of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) launched a criminal inquiry against Ilmi Umerov on suspicion of inciting violation of Russia's territorial integrity. On August 11, in Simferopol, the court granted the petition of the FSB investigator on Umerovs forensic psychiatric examination.
On August 21, Umerov lawyers said that they regarded psychological and psychiatric examination of their client as torture and would appeal to the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Umerov's lawyer Mark Feygin said, "We regard psychological and psychiatric examination of Umerov in the state of deteriorating health conducted in the hospital of Simferopol as torture."
