Russian-controlled court in Crimea rejects appeals filed by Ilmi Umerov

Kremlin-controlled “Supreme Court” in the occupied Crimea has rejected all three appeals filed by Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Ilmi Umerov.

His lawyer, Nikolai Polozov posted this on Twitter.

Thus, Umerov was denied the appeal against institution of the criminal proceeding, against illegal detention in a psychiatric hospital, and against the pledge of secrecy, signed by the Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis.

Earlier, his daughter Aishe Umerova posted on her Facebook page that the court delivered judgments on Umerov’s appeals at a fantastic rate.

As reported, the Russian Federal Security Service initiated a criminal case against the Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Ilmi Umerov on “separatism” charges this May.

August 11, Ilmi Umerov felt badly in the courtroom. The doctors hospitalized him with a suspected heart attack. After that, Russian-controlled court of Simferopol took a decision to send Umerov to inpatient forensic psychiatric examination.

September 7, Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Ilmi Umerov was released today from a psychiatric clinic in Simferopol, where the occupation authorities forcibly held him for three weeks.