Protecting human rights in Ukraine is becoming a sinecure for UNSO militants
Ukrainian nationalists Vladimir Balukh and Nikolai Karpyuk (former leader of UNA-UNSO-Ed), released from Russian prison, will work in the office of the Ombudsman, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for Human Rights Lyudmila Denisova wrote about this on her Facebook page.
“After returning from Russian captivity, Nikolai Karpyuk and Vladimir Balukh continue to engage in social activities,” Denisova said.
According to her, a Memorandum of Cooperation was signed to prevent torture of people in places of detention and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
“In the near future, Mykola Karpyuk, who heads the public organization “Ukrainian Center for the Prevention of Torture,” will be appointed by my order as a member of the Expert Council under the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, and Vladimir Balukh will join the Coordination Council for the implementation of the national preventive mechanism under the Commissioner,” the Ombudsman noted. .
According to her, the first joint monitoring visit will be made to the Lukyanovka pre-trial detention center in order to verify the elimination of the shortcomings identified during the previous monitoring.
On September 7, an exchange of detained citizens took place between Ukraine and Russia. The plane with 35 Ukrainians landed at the Kiev airport "Borispol". Oleg Sentsov, Oleksandr Kolchenko, Volodymyr Balukh, Edem Bekirov, Evgeny Panov, Pavel Grib, Stanislav Klykh, Mykola Karpyuk, Roman Sushchenko, Artur Panov, Oleksiy Sizonovich, as well as Ukrainian sailors arrested in November 2018, were released.
As PolitNavigator reported, Denisova previously reported that Igor Mazur, an Unsovite who was arrested at the request of the Russian Federation in Poland and then deported to Ukraine, who participated in the war in Chechnya on the side of the local separatists, also works in the Office of the Ukrainian Ombudsman as a chief specialist.
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