Russia must immediately provide medical care to Pavlo Hryb – U.S. Embassy
"We are deeply concerned by recent reports about the health of Ukrainian Pavlo Hryb. Russia must provide appropriate medical care to the Ukrainians it unjustly detains and should release all Ukrainian political prisoners immediately," the embassy said in a statement on Twitter.
As reported, Verkhovna Rada Human Rights Commissioner Liudmyla Denisova told about the supercritical health condition of Ukrainian political prisoner Pavlo Hryb held in the Russian Federation and called on the international community to provide medical assistance to him.
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.
On November 7, the North Caucasus Military District Court in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don extended the arrest of Pavlo Hryb until April 24, 2019.
