Transfer to Ukrainian

Authorized by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Human Rights Valery Lutkovskaya and Russian Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova, at a meeting in Minsk, agreed on the mechanism of transferring prisoners to the continental Ukraine, serving the terms for sentences of Ukrainian courts. This was reported by "Crimea. Realities." For the transfer of prisoners, it is supposed to conclude a special agreement.

Lutkovskaya and Moskalkov also checked the lists of Crimean prisoners, who petitioned the transfer to the continent. The Lutkovskaya list is 18 names, and she suggests that her list is not yet full. Meanwhile, the Moskalkova list is slightly smaller; How many surnames he includes is not specified.

It is also not reported in what specifically the deadlines are supposed to be transferred to the Crimean prisoners in the colony on the continent. The date of the next meeting of Ukrainian and Russian officials is not determined.

Finally, there is no information about whether the problem of several thousand Crimean prisoners, already transferred to the colony in Russia, was discussed at the meeting.

On May 26, Moskalkova accused Ukraine of unwillingness to take her prisoners from Crimea. “We suggest,” the official noted. “But the reactions have not yet come.”

The first deputy minister of justice of Ukraine Natalia Sevostyanova expressed surprise in connection with the statement of Moskalkova. "For two years, we are negotiating with the Russian side, we are trying in every possible way to take our prisoners," she said. However, Russia continued by the official, in all ways it prevents the transfer of convicts, and there were no official documents on their readiness to transfer them to Kyiv from Moscow.

On May 31, lawyer Roman Martynovsky, an expert of the regional center of human rights and the Ukrainian Helsinki group, said that about 7 thousand prisoners were moved from the Crimean colonies to Russia. Reluctibly, he added, it is known about the transfer to the Russian colonies of 2200 people.

In total, the human rights activists, Martynovsky said, have information about 27 Russian penitentiary institutions, which contains convicts who were transferred from Crimea. However, specific information is only relative to 16 colonies.

The reasons for the transfer of convicts from Crimea to the Russian colony may be different, Martynovsky continued. So, there are no female colonies on the peninsula, as well as medical correctional institutions. Nevertheless, the expert emphasized, he and his colleagues have repeatedly recorded cases of sending to Russia for refusing to accept Russian citizenship.

At the same time, Martynovsky noticed that most prisoners want to return to Ukraine. Firstly, the Russian colonies are more stringent conditions. Secondly, many convicts before the capture of Crimea remotely received higher education in universities in the country - after their training, they stopped.

The problem of the Crimean prisoners moved to the Russian colonies previously reported by Russian lawyer Dmitry Sotnikov, who defends the Euromaidan-Polizk Alexander Kostenko. In March, Sotnikov wrote that together with his general regime in Kirovo-Chepetsk , three citizens of Ukraine are contained in the Crimea , and after the annexation of the peninsula, they refused to accept Russian citizenship: 28-year-old Viktor Sklikov from Nikolaev, his peer Vladislav Burlak from Kharkov and 50-year-old Grigory Larionov, whose place of residence was not specified.

After the refusal of prisoners to accept the citizenship of the aggressor country, Russia in violation of international principles of justice "brought their sentences in line with the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation" - that is, Sotnikov explained, repeatedly condemned for crimes, the accusations in which they brought them to the Ukrainian colony. When an amnesty was declared an amnesty in Ukraine, Scabs, Burlak and Larionov demanded to apply it to them, but the Russian authorities refused them, citing the fact that now they have not Ukrainian, but Russian sentences.

Genconsul of Ukraine in Moscow Gennady Breskalenko sought a meeting with Larionov for four days. As a result, however, this prisoner on the day of the consul’s visit under a far -fetched pretext was put in a schizo.