Convicted Maidan participant Alexander Kostenko was placed in a punishment cell

Ukrainian Alexander Kostenko, convicted on charges of causing harm to the health of a Berkut employee in Kyiv, was placed in a punishment cell. about it Write "Crimea. Realii” with reference to Yana Goncharova, coordinator of the “RosUznik” project.

Kostenko is due to be released on August 3. According to Goncharova, several disciplinary sanctions have been issued against him lately.

“First, for the fact that he curtained his bed and was placed in an isolation cell for 7 days. Sasha says that there was a draft and he was cold, so he curtained it. Then they issued a penalty for being in the dormitory, allegedly violating the established order. And they say that now there will still be a penalty for not holding his hands behind his back outside the cell, ”said Goncharova.

• The Kievsky District Court of Simferopol sentenced Kostenko to 4 years and 2 months in prison, but when considering an appeal, the term was reduced to 3 years and 11 months. The man was found guilty of causing harm to a Berkut fighter in Kyiv and illegal possession of weapons.
• Kostenko does not admit his guilt: according to him, he was not on Hrushevsky Street in Kyiv, where Vitaly Polienko, a Berkut officer, was injured. Kostenko's lawyer Dmitry Sotnikov stated in the debate that there were no footage of the discovery of an unregistered rifled barrel in Kostenko's apartment.
• Alexander Kostenko is included in the "List of Sentsov" - a list of political prisoners whose release is required by the convicted director. OVD-Info collected known information about 88 people associated with Ukraine and persecuted by the Russian authorities. Among these people there are both those deprived of liberty and those sentenced to suspended sentences, which means that they have limited movement.