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Verkhovna Rada Human Rights Commissioner Lyudmila Denisova said she received a response from her Russian colleague Tatyana Moskalkova about the possibility of visiting Ukrainian political prisoners in places of detention in the Russian Federation. He said that on December 24, Ukrainian political prisoner Alexander Shumkov returns home.
On December 24, Ukrainian political prisoner Alexander Shumkov, who was in a Russian colony for two years, returns to his homeland. This was announced on his Telegram channel by the authorized representative of the Verkhovna Rada for human rights Lyudmila Denisova.
“She reported that Alexander Shumkov was returning from a Russian prison on December 24. The Kremlin! “
He recalled that now, for political reasons, Russia is persecuting 130 Ukrainian citizens, “who are the parents of 186 underage children.”
Sevskiy District Court of Bryansk Region December 4, 2018 sentenced Shumkov to four years in prison general regime of belonging to the “Right Sector”. According to the case materials, Shumkov “for a long time” was the guard of the former leader of the “Right Sector” Dmitry Yarosh.
The Ukrainian said that in late August 2017, FSB agents kidnapped him and transported him to Russian territory. According to Shumkov, at the time of the kidnapping, he was an active military man of the 11th Separate Brigade of the Army Aviation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (stationed in the village of Chernobaevka, Kherson region).
In April 2019, Shumkov stated that he was beaten twice by Russian jailers.
On October 15, 2019, Shumkov went on a hunger strike, demanding that Russia stop blackmailing prisoners in negotiations in the Minsk and Normandy formats. On October 23, he was admitted to the hospital. On November 7, the Ukrainian ended his hunger strike.
In April this year, Shumkov was sent to a detachment under strict conditions of detention.
In November, Denisova again reported that Shumkov had been beaten in the colony.
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