Halya Coynash: Crimean Tatar Mejlis leader arrested on ‘extremism’ charges
Armed men stand guard in front of the entrance of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people (the single highest executive-representative body of the Crimean Tatars) in Simferopol on Sept. 16, 2014.
Ilmi Umerov, the Deputy Head of the Mejlis, or Crimean Tatar representative assembly, was detained on May 12 in Russian-occupied Crimea on charges of ‘making public calls encroaching upon Russia’s territorial integrity’.
