Nariman Dzhelyal’s lawyers learned on October 8 that the imprisoned First Deputy Chair of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis had been secretly moved against his will to a psychiatric hospital. There are no grounds, even according to Russian legislation, for ordering any ‘psychiatric assessment’, and Dzhelyal’s lawyer, Nikolai Polozov is convinced that this is part of Russia’s punitive system aimed at putting pressure on detainees.
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Nariman Dzhelyal, the first Deputy Head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, stands in front of a Crimean Tatar Flag. Dzhelyal was arrested and taken to an unknown location by Russian authorities in occupied Crimea on Sept. 4, 2021.
