Prisoner release to be key topic for humanitarian subgroup in Minsk on Jan 13

"We will plough through every last name. I still believe that we must get moving on this issue," Heraschenko wrote on her Facebok page on Tuesday. She also noted that more than 100 missions of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and over 25 missions from the OSCE, UN bodies, Doctors without Borders and other international humanitarian organizations visited Ukrainian penitentiaries over the past year and were able to talk to detainees. However, there was not a single case when an 'access to prisons' was granted in the territories beyond Kyiv's control "either to the ICRC or any other organizations," she said. This was despite the fact, she said, that before the season's holidays the militants "promised to allow at least the Red Cross into the prisons." It was reported that the first Trilateral Contact Group meeting of 2016 has been scheduled for January 13 in Minsk.