Russian occupiers arrested and are still holding Ukrainian citizen, Crimean Tatar Lenia Umerova in a detention center four months ago.. The girl was detained at the moment when she was heading to the Crimea to take care of her terminally ill father. Her brother Aziz Umerov announced this on Facebook..

“For more than 4 months, Russia has been holding hostage a citizen of Ukraine, my sister Umerova Lenia,” Aziz Umerov wrote.. – Occupiers accuse her of trumped-up charges of disobedience to law enforcement officers. Leniya is currently being held in a temporary detention center in the city of Vladikavkaz.. The only "

He appealed to caring public activists, representatives of human rights organizations and state authorities with a call to assist in the release of Lenia from captivity.

The Crimean Human Rights Group (CHG) reported that the detention of Leniya Umerova took place on December 4, 2022. A girl from Kyiv went to Russia through Georgia to get to the occupied Crimea from there. She was detained at the Georgian-Russian border allegedly for violating the rules of the regime zone.

Until March 16, Umerova was held in a temporary detention center for foreign citizens near Vladikavkaz.. The local court found her guilty of " 1 st. 18 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation) and fined 2 thousand rubles.

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On the night of March 16, she was released from the detention center for foreign citizens.. However, as the girl later said, a car with 4 men was waiting for her at the gate.. They grabbed her, put a bag over her head, brought her to an unfamiliar district of Vladikavkaz and left her where a police patrol detained her.. For the question about the reasons for the detention of the girl, a protocol was drawn up on disobedience to police officers. The Leninsky District Court imposed an administrative penalty on her - 15 days of arrest..

While Umerova was in the temporary detention center, a similar report was again drawn up against her: allegedly the girl refused to give her phone to the police. On March 27, the court again appointed her 15 days of arrest.. Leniya is transported to the detention center in the city of Beslan.

On April 9, a protocol is again drawn up against the girl for disobedience to the police. On April 11, the Soviet Court of Vladikavkaz again appointed 15 days of arrest.

“The girl is simply kept under the guise of these administrative arrests.. These are gross violations, obviously having the character of politically motivated persecution and falsification of administrative cases.. I am afraid that with the help of these administrative arrests, the girl is actually being held in captivity in order to fabricate a criminal case,” says Olga Skripnik, chairman of the board of the KKE..

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After the successful summit of the Crimean Platform, Russia decided to change the tactics of intimidation of the indigenous people of Ukraine - the Crimean Tatars, adding the practice of mass arrests to its arsenal. Read more about this in the article by Mykola Marny “How Russia intimidates the indigenous people of Ukraine with detentions and fines”.