The arrest of the Crimean political prisoner of Balukh was extended until June 4

The judge of the Razdolnensky district court of the annexed Crimea Maria Bedritskaya extended to the Ukrainian activist Vladimir Balukh, who was arrested in a fabricated case of storage of ammunition, the term of maintenance in the pre -trial detention center for three months - until June 4. This was announced on Thursday by the Crimean human rights group.

There are no details of the meeting in the publication.

Two days earlier, on February 28, the judge of the Crimean Supreme Court controlled by Russia Timur Sluzko immediately rejected the appeal to two decisions on the extension of the Baluh arrest - dated December 27, 2016 and on February 3, 2017. For what reason is the consideration of the complaint about the first of these decisions for such a long time was not explained.

“In this abominable world that the state cultivates, I preferred to remain a man,” the political prisoner said in court. “I can be deprived of funds and life, but my spirit cannot be broken.”

Baluhu is 46 years old, he is a farmer from the village of Serebryanka of the Razdolnensky district. The activist was detained by FSB operatives on December 8, 2016 following a search in the houses of his mother. From December 12, it is contained under arrest.

Part 1 of Article 222 of the Russian Criminal Code (illegal turnover of ammunition) Baluhu threatens up to four years in the colony. According to the security forces, 90 rounds and several TNT checkers were found in his attic. Politzek does not plead guilty. He insists that the operatives themselves threw ammunition.

In December 2013, in the first weeks of the Revolution of Dignity, Baluh hung a red-black flag of the Ukrainian rebel army over his house. After some time at night, this flag was secretly disrupted, and the farmer replaced it with the national flag of Ukraine. The activist did not recognize the annexation of Crimea and did not apply for Russian citizenship.

In 2015, the Baluha twice took searches. In addition, he was arrested for 15 days according to the fabricated protocol on the disobedience of the police. Then, the case was opened against the activist under Article 319 of the Russian Criminal Code (insulting a representative of the authorities), according to which he was sentenced to 320 hours of compulsory work in June 2016. The verdict was pronounced by the same judge Bedritskaya, who now extended the period of detention in the pre -trial detention center. The activist refused to serve his work, and he was replaced by a 40-day arrest.

On November 29, a week and a half before the detention, Baluh attached a sign on the wall of his house "Wulitz heroes of heavenly, 18". The authorities demanded the sign to remove, threatening the persecution, but the activist ignored the demand.

At the end of December, Baluh announced unacceptable conditions of detention in jail . The Politzek said that the camera is crowded - there are almost three times more prisoners there than Nar - and it is very difficult for him to breathe with bronchitis. On December 28, an activist transported to the Razdolnensky IVS to participate in the court to extend the arrest called an ambulance.

On January 23, 2017, Lawyer Taras Omelchenko, after a meeting with Balukh, said that his client was undergoing beatings in the Simferopol pre-trial detention center-1 . Traces of beatings were visible on the face of Politzek. In addition, on January 17, Baluh had an acute attack of urolithiasis. In the medical unit of the pre -trial detention center, the prisoner was put a dropper. Baluh also told Omelchenko about problems with the digestive system, in particular with the stomach that began due to unsatisfactory nutrition in the insulator.