Feygin shows colony to which Sushchenko was moved

Public defender Mark Feygin has shown a colony in the Kirov region in which Roman Sushchenko, an Ukrinform journalist illegally convicted in Russia, stays.

He posted a respective video on his Facebook page.

"Here it is - Kirovo-Chepetsk prison, in the village of Utrobino. Roman Sushchenko stays here. Now he is in a 'safe place' - the so-called cell-type room," Feygin wrote.

Public defender Mark Feygin has shown a colony in the Kirov region in which Roman Sushchenko, an Ukrinform journalist illegally convicted in Russia, stays.

As reported, Ukrinform's Paris-based correspondent Roman Sushchenko was illegally detained on September 30, 2016 in Moscow, where he arrived on a private trip.

On October 7, 2016, he was charged with "espionage." Russia's FSB claimed that Sushchenko is a member of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry. The latter denied this allegation.

On June 4, 2018, the Moscow City Court sentenced Sushchenko to 12 years in a high-security penal colony. The Supreme Court of Russia upheld the verdict on September 12.

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