Politically imprisoned Leniie Umerova was assigned a forensic psychiatric examination. This was announced by Aziz Umerov on his Facebook page.
Lawyers regularly visit the prisoner to keep the situation under control. During her last visit, Lenia handed over a letter addressed to the President of Ukraine.
“Now our society is going through difficult times and is fighting for its rights to development and life. And all of us, citizens of Ukraine, each in his own place, courageously defend the most valuable thing that we have – our dignity and freedom. A foundation laid by previous generations and reinforced by our own experience. Words that for each of us have become at the level of the basic needs that we stand for!”,- writes Leniie.
There are no details of the case, such as the timing, methods and method of conducting the examination, since it is classified.
“Thank you that, as the leader of a sovereign democratic country, you show by your own example that the words dignity and freedom have no price!”,- she ends the message.
We remind that on December 4, 2022, Russian security forces detained Leniie Umerova after crossing the Georgian-Russian border, allegedly for violating the rules of the regime zone. The girl was traveling from Kyiv to the occupied Crimea due to the deterioration of her father’s condition. Until March 16, Lenia was held in a temporary detention center for foreign citizens near Vladikavkaz. The occupants found the girl guilty of violating the regime of the state border (part 1 of article 18 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation) and fined her 2,000 rubles.
On the night of March 16, 2023, Leniie Umerova was released, but they grabbed her, put a bag over her head, brought her to an unfamiliar district of Vladikavkaz and left her there. The girl was again detained and a protocol was drawn up against her for disobedience to the police. She was assigned 15 days of administrative arrest. Subsequently, this was repeated three times.
On May 5, the Lefortovo Court in Moscow arrested Crimean Tatar Leniie Umerova for 2 months on suspicion of high treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).