On Oct. 8, Crimean Tatar leader and Putin’s political prisoner Nariman Dzhelyal’s lawyers found that he had been covertly transferred to a psychiatric clinic against his will. Earlier, Mr Dzhelyal refused to undergo a psychiatric evaluation since there are no grounds for it.
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Nariman Dzhelyal, first deputy head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, was arrested by Russian authorities in occupied Crimea on Sept. 4.
