Aziz Umerov, the brother of political prisoner Leniie Umerova, received a letter from her from prison. Aziz reported this on his Facebook page.
“Every time I receive a letter from Bocek, I admire her resilience, courage and positivity. She manages to instill hope in people on the outside, while in prison. After spending more than 11 months behind bars, you have not lost the spirit that has always been inherent in you. Bocek, I’m proud of you!”,- he writes.
He also added that anyone who wants to convey a message to Leniie can do so through him.
Let us recall that on December 4, 2022, Russian security forces detained Leniie Umerova after crossing the Georgian-Russian border, allegedly for violating the rules of the security zone. The girl was traveling from Kyiv to occupied Crimea due to the deterioration of her father’s condition.
Until March 16, Leniie was held in the Temporary Detention Center for Foreign Citizens near Vladykavkaz. The occupiers found the girl guilty of violating the state border regime (Part 1 of Article 18 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation) and fined her 2 thousand rubles.
On the night of March 16, 2023, Leniie Umerova was released, but she was grabbed, put a bag over her head, brought to an unfamiliar area of Vladykavkaz and left there. The girl was detained again and a report was drawn up against her for disobeying the police. She was sentenced to 15 days of administrative arrest. This was subsequently 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).
On September 29, 2023, it became known that the Lefortovo Court of Moscow, at a closed meeting, extended the period of detention of political prisoner Leniie Umerova until January 4, 2024.