“Revenge for invincibility”: foreign Ministry protests against the new sentence Baluku and demands to release him

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The Ministry stressed that the health and life of Baloha and other Ukrainian political prisoners in danger.

The Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine strongly protests against the new verdict to Ukrainian political prisoner Vladimir Baluku in the occupied Crimea.

About it reports a press-Department service.

The Ministry noted that the new sentence such as illegal and politically motivated as the previous one. “As revenge for the invincibility of the Ukrainian patriot, who in jail did not submit to the occupation regime, against Vladimir Baloga was fabricated another case in which his term of imprisonment increased to five years”, – outraged the Minister.

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It is noted that the most striking unheard of cynicism of Russian occupation – “a man who announced an indefinite hunger strike for almost four months ago, on March 19, was convicted on absurd charges of “beating” the head of the detention center”.

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A new verdict to Ukrainian political prisoner. In the occupied Crimea Vladimir Baloga was sentenced to 5 years in prison and fined 10,000 rubles, which is about 4 thousand hryvnia. On false charges of a Ukrainian accused that he was beaten by the jailer.

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According to the Agency, the new verdict of the so-called trial showed that the situation with human rights on the Peninsula continues to deteriorate rapidly and there are serious grounds to believe that the health and life of Baloha and other Ukrainian political prisoners in danger.

“We demand from the state-aggressor and occupier to cease the violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms and immediately release Vladimir Baloga and other illegally detained Ukrainian citizens”, – said in a statement the foreign Ministry.

Recall Baluch hunger strike for over 100 days. Previously, he was sentenced to three years and seven months in prison on charges of alleged illegal possession of ammunition. Human rights activists believe that his repression of Pro-Ukrainian position, in particular for the Ukrainian flag displayed in his front yard. On 5 July he was sentenced to five years imprisonment and a fine for the alleged beating of the head of the detention center, although Baloch reports that it was the opposite.

On March 19 Baluch announced an indefinite hunger strike. Lawyer Olga Dinze said that Ukrainian activist during the hunger strike lost 30 kg of weight. The prisoner himself has repeatedly reported the abuse in the Simferopol SIZO.

“Revenge for invincibility”: foreign Ministry protests against the new sentence Baluku and demands to release him

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