Russia is preparing to transfer Sentsov and the sailors detained in the Kerch Strait to Ukraine - ForumDaily
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Russia is preparing to transfer Sentsov and the sailors detained in the Kerch Strait to Ukraine

The Russian authorities want to send political prisoners to Ukraine, including Roman Suschenko, Oleg Sentsov and Evgeny Panov. Also in the Kremlin, they are ready to send sailors who were captured in the Kerch Strait to the homeland of Xnumx. In exchange, Kiev will send to Russia citizens of this country who are serving sentences in Ukraine. Writes about this Komersant.

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According to the publication, on Thursday Lefortovo pre-trial detention center gathered three dozen Ukrainian citizens, both already convicted in Russia and those under investigation. Convicts, including Roman Sushchenko, Oleg Sentsov, as well as Evgeny Panov, are supposed to be pardoned by presidential decree and sent to their homeland, having received in exchange pardoned Russians. In turn, a criminal case against 24 Ukrainian sailors can be sent to this country for further investigation along with its defendants. At the same time, some Ukrainians refused to participate in the exchange operation.

Members of the Moscow Public Monitoring Commission went to the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center, but administration officials said the prisoners, who are allegedly being prepared for the exchange, do not want to meet with human rights defenders.

At the same time, human rights activists were not even allowed to look into the cameras with the Ukrainians through the eyes in the doors. The administration of the pre-trial detention center did not confirm the information that the director Oleg Sentsov was transferred to it from a colony in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District.

According to official figures, Aleksandr Kolchenko, journalist Roman Suschenko and Yevgeny Panov are in Lefortovo. All of them are considered political prisoners by Ukrainians in Russia.

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“He really is in Lefortovo,” his lawyer Dmitry Dinze said about Yevgeny Panov, refusing to discuss the fate of his other client Sentsov. “We applied for a visit, but so far no one is allowed to see him.”

According to a source close to the negotiation process, it is estimated that the bulk of the prisoners whom Russia plans to send to Ukraine will be seamen captured in the Kerch Strait.

According to the source, it is assumed that, based on Art. 462 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation, the principles of reciprocity, as well as the provisions of one of the Minsk conventions on legal cooperation, sailors will be sent to Ukraine along with their criminal case for further investigation.

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In Kiev, based on the results of the proceedings, they can conclude that they are innocent and release. The lawyers of the sailors refrained from any comments, explaining that they were afraid to disrupt the dialogue that had begun between the parties.

Lawyer Dmitry Dinze believes that it is impossible to legally arrange the exchange of Ukrainian sailors.

“Unless the case against them will be dismissed due to the lack of corpus delicti or events. Or for not being involved in a crime, just like that, ”Dinze said.

According to the procedure, a pardon can be given by Russian President Vladimir Putin after receiving the corresponding written statement from the convict. However, some Ukrainians, including Oleg Sentsov, refused to write such statements, citing the fact that a request for clemency automatically entails a guilty plea.

According to Kommersant’s source, Putin received several appeals from the director’s relatives and lawyers for pardon, but they were not given a move, declaring it illegal.

The Kremlin said that if Sentsov and other prisoners do not change their minds, the exchange will be made on the conditions under which Ukrainians illegally convicted in Russia will be sent to Ukraine to continue serving the sentence imposed by the Russian court.

On August 28, the press secretary of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Larisa Sargan announced the possibility of an exchange according to the 35 to 35 formula. Last week, it was about exchanging 33 on both sides.

As ForumDaily wrote earlier:

  • Sentsov was detained in the annexed Crimea in the 2014 year. In August 2015, the North Caucasian District Military Court sentenced the Ukrainian director to 20 years in a maximum security colony, finding him guilty of preparing a terrorist attack.
  • Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov on August 29 delivered to jail in Moscow. These messages appeared against the backdrop of the expected exchange of prisoners between Russia and Ukraine.
  • From May to October 2018 year Sentsov held a hunger strikedemanding the release of Ukrainian political prisoners who are in Russia.
  • October 6 2018 years Oleg Sentsov stopped hunger strike due to a critical health condition.
  • How do they live in Russian prisoners political prisoners Ukrainians Oleg Sentsov and Alexander Kolchenko.
  • On the morning of November 25, 2018, the Ukrainian small armored boats “Berdyansk” and “Nikopol”, as well as the tugboat “Yany Kapu” began the planned transition from Odessa to Mariupol. At the Kerch Strait, they were met by Russian border ships, one of which rammed a Ukrainian tug. As a result, the Russian frontier guards with shooting captured three Ukrainian ships in the Kerch Strait area and captured 24 Ukrainian military.
  • As stated in the FSB, they illegally crossed the Russian border and did not respond to the requirement to stop. The Ukrainian Navy said they had warned the Russian side in advance about the transition, but the Russian border guards did not respond to the message of the Ukrainian ships.
  • April 16 Ukraine 2019 appealed to the maritime tribunal with a request to take urgent action in relation to Russia, in order to free the Ukrainian sailors and ships seized in the Kerch Strait.
  • International Tribunal for Maritime Law 25 May He has made a decisionin which he ordered Russia to immediately release two Ukrainian warships and an auxiliary vessel and 24 Ukrainian sailors captured near the Kerch Strait in November 2018.
  • Russia had a month to implement this decision, it expired on June 25. Ukrainian sailors are still in Russian captivity, criminal proceedings have been initiated against them. It’s hard to say what awaits Russia for violating the tribunal’s decision, because, according to lawyer Ilya Novikov, “no one has yet decided to violate the order of the UN tribunal".

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