Russian court extends arrest of Ukrainian Pavlo Hryb until April 24

The North Caucasus Military District Court in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don has extended the arrest of Ukrainian political prisoner Pavlo Hryb for six months.

“The arrest has been extended until April 24, 2019,” court's spokeswoman Alyona Katkalo said, Interfax-South news agency reported.

As reported, Pavlo Hryb disappeared on August 24, 2017 in Belarus, where he went to the city of Gostomel to date a girl with whom he communicated on social networking sites.

In September, it became known that Pavlo Hryb was in a detention center in Krasnodar (Russia), charged with terrorism. At the same time, his lawyer said that Pavlo had been kidnapped by FSB officers.

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