Andriy KOLOMIYETS, political prisoner, who since January was held at the centre of the temporary detention of the foreigners in the region of Krasnodar after he had served 10-year imprisonment, has left the territory of russia.
According to the Crimean Human Rights Group, at the russian border the FSB was questioning A.KOLOMIYETS for several hours. For the time being he is detained at the control point Verkhniy Lars which is at the russo Georgian border, the North Osetiya. A. KOLOMIYETS has been expecting the relevant documents to cross the Georgian border. A. KOLOMIYETS shares the confined premise with a few dozen of people.
“For the second day now my husband Andriy KOLOMIYETS has been detained in the cellar in Verkhniy Lars, between russia and Georgia, the berths are lacking, the detainees sleep in turns, no food, no water, and no medical aid are provided. Among the detainees there are people who suffer from tuberculosis: the premise is very confined”, – Halyna KOLOMIYETS, the spouse, informs.
The fact of the illegal deprivation of the personal freedom of A. KOLOMIYETS due to the aggression by rf against Ukraine has been established in Ukraine.
In January A.KOLOMIYETS was released after he had served 10-year imprisonment, however, for six months he was detained in the deportation centre in the town of Hulkevytchi of the region of Krasnodar.
As is known, the deportation centres at the south of russia are to detain for months and years the nationals of Ukraine awaiting the deportation to Ukraine. As the media inform, once the sentence is served, the Ukrainians remain actually detained as they are prohibited from leaving the deportation centre and once again the terms of their detention are extended. The HRDs claim such practice to be the flagrant infringement of the human rights.
- As the Crimean Human Rights Group informed, A.KOLOMIYETS, the resident of the Kyiv region and the EUROMAIDAN activist, had never lived in Crimea. In 2014 he via internet got to know Halyna, his wife-to-be, and went to see her in Kabardino-Balkarsk Republic (RF). On 15 May 2015 the RF policemen apprehended him at the dwelling of Halyna.
- A. KOLOMIYETS was severely tortured to make him plead himself guilty. In particular, a bag was put on his head, the wires were clipped to his fingers, a wet cloth was placed beneath, and an electric flow was switched on. Being tortured, A. KOLOMIYETS self-incriminated himself. Then he was transported to Crimea and accused of attack against “the Berkut officers”. As per the defence of A.KOLOMIYETS, the prosecution side had only two black and white photos, as evidence, depicting a handful of ashes from the allegedly burnt uniforms of the security forces.
- On 10 June 2016 Mykhaylo BILOUSOV, “the judge of the Kyiv district court” of Simferopol, sentenced A. KOLOMIYETS to 10-year imprisonment in the colony of the strict regime. A.KOLOMIYETS was accused of attempted murder of two ex-officers of the Internal Affairs Ministry Department, “the Berkut”, during the events on Maidan in Kyiv under several articles of the Criminal Code of the RF: article 105 – the murder of two and more persons (noncompleted), article 228 – storage of the drugs, article 30 – attempted murder.
- The Office of the Prosecutor General denied any involvement of A.KOLOMIYETS in attacks against “the Berkut”.
- The Crimean Human Rights Group maintained the case was fully trumped up and politically motivated.
- In the russian colony on many occasions A.KOLOMIYETS was placed in penalty confinement under spurious reasons.
