The official representative of the European Union External Action Service says that the EU is awaiting the immediate release of Ukrainian citizen Pavlo Hryb and demands that he be granted access to special medical treatment.
“For so long as he remains in detention, Ukrainian doctors must be allowed to see him as required by a ruling from the European Court of Human Rights,” the official representative said in a statement distributed in Brussels on Friday.
The statement says that “Pavlo Hryb, a 20-year old Ukrainian citizen, who suffers from a disabling and serious medical condition, was abducted from Belarus by the Russian authorities in August 2017.”
“Since then he has been illegally detained in Russia without any substantiated charges, and his health condition continues to be worrying. Today a Russian court sentenced Pavlo Hryb to six years imprisonment on the grounds of “promoting terrorism,” it said.
As reported, the North Caucasian District Military Court convicted Hryb and sentenced him to six years in a penal colony.
In turn, the lawyer of the convict, Marina Dubrovina, told reporters that the verdict would be appealed.
