Yesterday, May 11, in Liverpool before the second semi-final of Eurovision 2023, Jamala presented her new album QIRIM and reminded of hundreds of Crimean political prisoners.
Among other things, Jamala We remind youed the illegally arrested young Crimean Tatar Leniie Umerova.
We remind you 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, Leniie 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 seized her, put a bag over her head, brought her to an unfamiliar district of Vladikavkaz and left her there. The woman 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, Leniie was sentenced to 15 days of arrest three more times, allegedly because she refused to give up her phone and because of disobedience to the police.
On May 5, the Lefortovo Court in Moscow arrested Lenya Umerova for 2 months on suspicion of high treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).