Ukrainian political prisoner Stanyslav Klykh in the Russian Federation has been sent to serve out his prison sentence in a prison located in Chelyabinsk, his lawyer Ilya Novikov has said.. Klykh had been held in Grozny, Russia.Novikov said Ukrainian citizen Volodymyr Karpiuk, also a political prisoner, was moved from Grozny via the Russian city of Izhevsk.
As earlier reported, the Supreme Court of Russia's Chechnya region on May 26, 2016 sentenced Karpiuk and Klykh to 22.5 and 20 years in prison, respectively, for allegedly taking part in fighting with Russian army forces during the first Chechnya war during the early 2000s. Both men deny the charges.
