A Krasnodar court extended the term of arrest of 19-year-old Ukrainian citizen Pavlo Gryb for another two months, until July 4.
The court met behind closed doors on Saturday, April 28, his father Igor Gryb said.
Having seen the Ukrainian consul and the mother of Pavlo Gryb in the courtroom, the judge asked them to leave. For more than eight months since Gryb has been in jail, he has not been allowed to meet with his mother.
“Since then, we’ve received only letter from him, and he has received one letter from one Ukrainian citizen,” the father said.
According to him, Pavlo Gryb’s eyesight has significantly deteriorated in prison.
In late August, the citizen of Ukraine went missing in the Belarusian city of Homiel. As it emerged later, Russia blacklisted him as a ‘terrorist’ for his criticizing the Kremlin’s policy on the Internet. In Homiel he met with the 17-year-old girl from Sochi who later confessed that the FSB exerted pressure on her. Later, Pavlo Gryb was ‘found’ arrested in Russia’s Krasnodar.
According to the Russian side, 19-year-old Pavlo Gryb asked his acquaintance from Sochi to go off a bomb at a school assembly in Sochi. Ukraine says that the charge has been forged.
After a massive public outcry and diplomatic note, the Belarusian State Border Committee admitted the fact of his border crossing on August 24 and said Pavlo Gryb had not violated anything. According to a Krasnodar court, the arrest warrant was issued on August 17 (i.e., before Pavlo Gryb crossed the Belarus-Ukraine border), when he was put on the international wanted list.
ІІ, belsat.eu, following UNIAN
