Ukrainian Klykh, sentenced to 20 years, was returned to the colony from a psychiatric hospital

Ukrainian citizen Stanislav Klykh, sentenced to 20 years in a maximum security colony on charges of murdering Russian military personnel during the First Chechen War, was transferred from a psychiatric hospital to a colony. Ukrainian Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova wrote about this on Facebook.

According to Denisova, she spoke with Klykh’s mother Tamara: the woman managed to communicate with her son by phone - something she had previously been denied.

The Ukrainian Ombudsman, from the words of the prisoner’s mother, reported on Klykh’s health condition:

Stanislav said that in a psychiatric hospital he was “pumped up” with psychotropic drugs, and he does not know how this will affect his condition in the future. According to Tamara, Stanislav is balanced; he says that his kidneys hurt a lot, most likely after an injury.

At the end of June it became known that Klykh was admitted to a psychiatric hospital. Then his mother noticed that during the last meeting the lawyer noticed a significant deterioration in her son’s health.

Later, the lawyer of the Ural human rights group, Ekaterina Buryan, discovered Klykh in the Regional Psychiatric Prison Hospital of Magnitogorsk.

Then, in a conversation with a lawyer, the prisoner claimed that he did not give permission for hospitalization - this, as human rights activist Tatyana Shchur noted , contradicts the words of the colony staff. Burian added that in the hospital she "found him calmer and more reasonable."

• 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.
• Klykh and another person involved in the case, Nikolai Karpyuk, 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. Karpyuk was subsequently sentenced to 22 years in a maximum security colony.
• During one of the court hearings, Stanislav Klykh insulted the prosecutor. He was given another month in prison. Probably, the man was given drugs, due to which his behavior changed: at the meetings the prisoner 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.