The second case of Ukrainian Stanislav Klykh convicted in Chechnya has been sent to court

The case of contempt of court, initiated in Chechnya against Ukrainian citizen Stanislav Klykh, was transferred to the Zavodskoy District Court of Grozny. This was reported by lawyer Marina Dubrovina, representing the interests of Klykh.

OVD-InfoThe reason for opening the case was the insult of the prosecutor at one of the meetings in the case of participation in hostilities in Chechnya, where Klykh was accused along with his compatriot Nikolai Karpyuk. In this case, Klykh was sentenced to 20 years in a maximum security colony, although, according to the defense, neither he nor Karpyuk not only did not participate in hostilities in the years they were charged with, but had never even been to Chechnya before their brought to trial in this case. Karpyuk, whom the investigation considered the leader of a group that fought on the side of militants and killed Russian military personnel, received 22 and a half years.

In the 1990s, Dubrovina’s lawyer said that as part of the investigation in the second case, all witnesses were questioned, that is, court employees and participants in the process who were at the meeting where Klykh, according to the prosecution, insulted the prosecutor. The prosecutor was also questioned as a victim. In addition, a linguistic examination of Klykh’s statement was carried out, during which it was concluded that his speech contained insults.

For many months now, OVD-InfoKlykh has been in a state that independent psychiatrists, including the President of the Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia, Yuri Savenko, assess as similar to a mental illness: moments of aggression and violence are replaced by periods of calm, almost apathy. Dubrovina tried to find out what drugs were given to Klykh, but she was unable to find out anything. She also filed a petition for an inpatient psychiatric examination of Klykh, but the court considered that Klykh was feigning mental illness, since earlier specialists who conducted an outpatient psychiatric examination stated that he was healthy.