Here's an Ilmi Umerov update from RFE/RL's news desk:
Human Rights Watch Demands Release Of Crimean Tatar Activist
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has demanded the release of a Crimean Tatar activist who was forcibly admitted to a psychiatric clinic on the peninsula, which has been annexed by Russia.
In its statement issued on August 26, HRW urged the Russia-backed authorities in Crimea to drop "trumped-up charges" against Ilmi Umerov and provide him with necessary medical treatment.
Umerov, the former deputy chairman of the Crimean Tatars' self-governing body, the Mejlis, was charged with separatism in May after he made public statements against Moscow's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea Peninsula in March 2014.
Umerov, 59, whose relatives and lawyers say he suffers from diabetes, Parkinson's disease, and heart problems, has been in a psychiatric hospital against his will since August 18
The Moscow-based Memorial Human Rights Center has called the case against Umerov "illegal and politically motivated."