Ukrainian citizen Stanislav Klykh, who was sentenced to 20 years in Russia, is being held a hospital in the Russian city of Magnitogorsk, his lawyer Ilya Novikov has said.
“According to the latest information, Stanislav Klykh is in a hospital in Magnitogorsk, and not in Chelyabinsk, as reported last week. The family was not officially notified about why he was transferred there and what his diagnosis is,” he wrote on his Facebook page.
Earlier, Ukrainian Human Rights Commissioner Valeria Lutkovska sent a letter to her Russian counterpart Tatyana Moskalkova requesting information on Klykh’s whereabouts.
Lutkovska is also asking her Russian counterpart to inform her about the reasons for his hospitalization and his state of health, the Ukrainian ombudsman’s website said.
Lutkovska earlier asked the Russian ombudsman to carry out a medical examination (a psychiatric examination) on the Ukrainian prisoner, and at their eye-to-eye meeting she asked that, if possible, Klykh be transferred to a penitentiary located as close as possible to the border with Ukraine so that his relatives could visit him.
On August 28, Klykh’s lawyer Ilya Novikov said his client was transferred to a hospital in the Urals. “My client was recently transferred to a hospital in the Chelyabinsk region, I don’t yet know on what grounds,” the lawyer said.
It was reported that on May 26, 2016, the Chechen Supreme Court sentenced two Ukrainian citizens, Mykola Karpiuk and Stanyslav Klykh, to 22.5 and 20 years of imprisonment, respectively. According to the verdict, Karpiuk is to serve the first ten years of his sentence in jail, while Klykh will serve the first nine years in jail, after which they will be transferred to a maximum-security penal colony.
On October 26, 2016, the Russian Supreme Court upheld the judgments for Klykh.
