Russian authorities freed a prominent Crimean dissident from a psychiatric clinic on Sept. 7 after he was held there for almost a month and subjected to enforced examinations, his lawyer and a colleague said; but he still faces a possible jail sentence.
Ilmi Umerov, deputy head of the Crimean Tatars’ semi-official Mejlis legislature, which was suspended by Moscow after it annexed the peninsula from Ukraine in 2014, was committed to compulsory psychiatric testing by local authorities in August.
