The session on the merits in the case of the Crimean Tatar Lenya Umerova will begin no earlier than six months later. Her lawyer Dmitry Dinze told Suspіlne.Crimea about this.
“Now everything is with the investigator. I can’t comment any more. The case is under the stamp of secrecy”,- said the human rights activist.
According to him, in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center Umerova is in a separate cell, she reads a lot and does yoga.
“Packages are sent to her, there are no problems with food, she did not complain about anything. Holding on”,- Umerova’s lawyer said.
There are no problems with medical care.
Dmitry Dinze noted that he visits her twice a month, they don’t let her into the pre-trial detention center anymore.
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 invaders 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 Lenya Umerova for 2 months on suspicion of high treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).