Relatives and lawyers of Ukrainian human rights activist Maxim Butkevich have not been able to obtain information about his condition and whereabouts in Russian captivity since August of this year. Letters and parcels that are sent to him in the pre-trial detention center of Russian-controlled Lugansk are returned, and requests are not answered. About it reports BBC Russian Service.
In March of this year, a Russian-controlled court in the Lugansk region sentenced Butkevich to 13 years in prison. He was accused of allegedly firing a grenade launcher at a residential building in Severodonetsk. The court found the human rights activist guilty of “cruel treatment of the civilian population and the use of prohibited methods in an armed conflict” and “attempted murder of two persons in a generally dangerous way and deliberate damage to someone else’s property in a generally dangerous way.”
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Edition “Grate” reportsthat Butkevich found himself in the combat zone 10 days after the shelling he was accused of, and before that he was in Kyiv.
Butkevich was captured in the summer of 2022 in the Luhansk region. Since his capture, his parents have seen him only a few times – and only in videos released by Russian media.
2023-11-09 22:56:49
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