Rallies in support of Ilmi Umerov had passed in many countries in the world (PHOTOES, VIDEO)

On Saturday, 3, in Ukraine, Russia, Canada, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and other countries the rallies in support of the deputy chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Ilmi Umerov has been held. Today he is forcibly confined in the psychiatric clinic to pass the medical examination.

The lawyer of Ilmi Umerov, Nikolay Polozov highlighted the number of times that his client’s forcible confinement in the psychiatric hospital is illegal. A court decision was particularly announced without Umerov’s presence because the defendant had got the hypertensic crisis in a courtroom, and the emergency paramedics insisted on the urgent hospitalization of Ilmi Umerov. The decision of forcible confinement of Ilmi Umerov in the psychiatric clinic to pass the medical evaluation was appealed, but it is still pending. On September 2, the occupied authorities in Crimea mentioned the appeal consideration date on September 13. Meanwhile the coercive detention of Ilmi Umerov ends on September 7. His family suggests those decisions to be humiliating. In general to remind some facts, Ilmi Umerov is accused of the extremism and his connection with his ideas in an interview for ATR TV channel. The occupants considered such announcement as Crimea is Ukraine to be criminal.

Lawyers and social activists appealed to the Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar Diasporas to rally in support of Ilmi Umerov on September 3. The deputy chairman of the Mejlis himself asked not to forget about all political prisoners.

In Russia the protests were single. Here are some photos from Yekaterinburg and Podmoskovie posted on Facebook by Yuriy Izotov and Oleg Kudrin.

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The huge rally had held in Canada. The video from the rally has been posted by Elvira Saale on her page on Facebook.

The journalist Antin Naumlyuk has posted the photos from the rally in the  Czech Republic

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