Kremlin political prisoner Hlib Shabliy has returned to Ukraine after serving a full sentence in the temporarily occupied Crimea and in Russia, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said.
“I congratulate the political prisoner of the Kremlin Hlib Shabliy on his return to Ukraine! For more than four years the Kremlin illegally kept him as a prisoner in the occupied Crimea and in the Russian Federation, for a full term. After his release, Ukrainian consuls in Novosibirsk, Moscow and Minsk accompanied his two-day return from Siberia,” Kuleba said on Twitter on March 5.
Shabliy was convicted in the so-called case of “Crimean saboteurs.”
On Nov. 10, 2016, the FSB of Russia announced that “members of the sabotage and terrorist group of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine,” Dmytro Shtyblikov, Oleksiy Besarabov and Volodymyr Dudka were detained in Sevastopol.
Shabliy was sentenced to five years in a colony under Part 1 of Article 223.1 (illegal manufacture of an explosive device) and Part 1 of Article 222.1 of the Criminal Code of Russia (illegal acquisition and storage of explosives and an explosive device) for five years in a colony.
