The last of the 234 protesters in Ukraine were released from custody on Feb. 14, the national resistance headquarters has reported.
According to the report, the decision on the last activist – Dmytro Poltavets – was taken by the Holosiyivsky District Court in Kyiv.
The headquarters noted that Poltavets was arrested on Hrushevskoho Street on Jan. 23 and that charges had been brought against him under Article 294 of the Criminal Code (participation in mass disturbances).
Earlier, a source in law enforcement agencies said that all previously detained participants in mass protests in Ukraine were to be released on Friday, Feb. 14.
As of Friday morning there were only 11 protesters in custody, including four in Cherkasy region, two in Dnipropetrovsk region and five in Kyiv region and the city of Kyiv.
On Thursday, Kyiv Prosecutor Mykola Beskyshky announced a list of streets and buildings in the Ukrainian capital, which the protesters have to release by Feb. 17 to ensure the entry into force of the so-called amnesty law and the exemption from criminal liability of suspects in the participation and organization of riots in Kyiv (adopted by the Verkhovna Rada on Jan. 29).
He said that the issue concerns nine streets in central Kyiv (Hrushevskoho, Horodetskoho, Khreschatyk, Instytutska, Triokhsviatytelska, Prorizna, Zankovetskoi, Maidan, Volodymyrsky Descent) and the dismantling of 19 barricades that were built there. Freeing Kyiv State City Administration building is compulsory, he added.
However, the national resistance headquarters described this statement by the prosecutor as a provocation.
