Andriy Fedur, lawyer for ex-member of parliament of the eighth convocation Serhiy Pashynsky, has said pretrial detainment in Kyiv’s Lukyanivske facility poses a threat to his client’s life.
“The decision for us is expected, although absolutely illegal. We will appeal it,” Fedur said after the court decision.
Fedur said the use of non-alternative arrest was made in order to “ensure the physical destruction of my client in the Lukyanivske pretrial detention center.”
“There is a plan to physically destroy as one of the five enemies of the occupying country,” Fedur said.
The lawyer said that he had already formally applied to the pretrial investigation body “for immediate security measures since there is a real threat to the life of my client.”
As reported, Pechersky District Court of Kyiv on Monday chose a preventive measure to Pashynsky – detention for two months (until December 4) without the right to post bail.
On October 4, 2019, the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) notified Pashynsky of suspicion of causing injury to a man in Kyiv region. The SBI report indicated that on December 31, 2016, in the Kyiv region there was a verbal conflict between the then MP and a citizen, during which the Pashynsky shot the man in the left leg with a Glock-19 pistol. As a result, the victim received a gunshot fragmentation fracture of the femur of the left leg. According to the forensic report, bodily harm inflicted is serious.
