The FSB seized the passports of Ukrainian Leniya Umerova, who has been held under arrest in North Ossetia for 5 months

The FSB seized identity documents of 25-year-old Ukrainian citizen Lenya Umerova, who was detained by Russian security forces in early December 2022 after crossing the Georgian-Russian border, when she was traveling from Kiev to the occupied Crimea to her father suffering from cancer. The girl is in the temporary detention center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Vladikavkaz. This was reported by the NGO "

“Documents of 25-year-old Crimean Tatar Lenya Umerova, who has been kept under administrative arrest in North Ossetia for about six months, was seized by the FSB of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania. The father became aware of this from a written response from the prosecutor of the North-Western district of the city of Vladikavkaz, Vadim Pliev..

Currently, the girl is in the temporary detention center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the city of Vladikavkaz..

Earlier, Leniya’s brother Aziz Umerov said that his sister, as a native of Crimea, did not want to receive a Russian passport after the occupation of the peninsula by Russia and renounce Ukrainian citizenship.

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