On Saturday 27 August, the spokesperson from the European External Action Service called for the immediate release of Ilmi Umerov, the deputy chairman of the Mejlis (the assembly of the Crimean Tatars).
"Given the serious concerns over his health, urgent and appropriate medical care must be ensured", the spokesperson said in a press release. Furthermore, in the spokesperson's view, "the forced psychiatric confinement and examination" of Umerov, who was charged of 'separatism' in May...