Ukrainian Stanislav Klykh, sentenced to 20 years, was transferred to a psychiatric hospital

Stanislav Klykh, sentenced to twenty years in prison on charges of murdering Russian military personnel during the First Chechen War, was transferred to a psychiatric hospital. This was reported by the Pryamoy TV channel with reference to the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Lyudmila Denisova.

The prisoner's mother Tamara Klykh confirmed this information to journalists. According to her, during the last meeting with her son, the lawyer noticed a significant deterioration in his health. In May, Stanislav Klykh went on a hunger strike.

• Stanislav Klykh is a Ukrainian journalist and public figure. In 2016, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison. The court found that the man took part in hostilities during the First Chechen War on the side of the separatists as part of the Ukrainian militant group UNA-UNSO and killed Russian military personnel.
• The second person involved in the case, Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh, claimed that they had not been to Chechnya. The defense and the Memorial Human Rights Center, which prepared the report on the case, claim that there is no evidence of their participation in hostilities.
• During one of the court hearings, Stanislav Klykh insulted the prosecutor. He was given another month in prison. The man was probably given drugs that caused his behavior to change: at meetings he was either apathetic or violent. During one of the attacks, he began to shout at the prosecutor. The judge found that Klykh was feigning illness, since the doctors who had previously carried out an outpatient examination concluded that he was healthy.
• Since January 2017, Klykh has been serving his sentence in Verkhneuralsk prison.
• The second defendant in the case of the participation of Ukrainian citizens in hostilities in Grozny and the murders of Russian military personnel was Nikolai Karpyuk. He was sentenced to 22 years in a maximum security colony.