Photo: Lyudmila Denisova / Facebook
Lyudmila Denisova spoke about the death of Ruslan Makarts
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Ruslan Makarets was detained by separatists in March 2019 in occupied Gorlovka, after which he was illegally sentenced to 13 years in prison for alleged “espionage”.
In the Makeevka correctional colony No. 32 in the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk region, 37-year-old Ukrainian prisoner Ruslan Makarets has died. This was announced on Friday, November 12, by the authorized representative of the Verkhovna Rada for human rights Lyudmila Denisova on her page in Facebook.
“I received the shocking news of the death of our fellow citizen, 37-year-old Ruslan Makarts in the Makeevka correctional colony No. 32, located in the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk region. The death of Ruslan Makarts came as a result of stabbing him,” she wrote.
Denisova noted that the Ukrainian was detained by separatists on March 22, 2019 in occupied Horlivka, after which he was illegally sentenced to 13 years in prison for allegedly “spying for the Ukrainian special services.”
“The Ukrainian authorities tried to free Ruslan from captivity. However, the process of releasing persons from the territories not controlled by the government of Ukraine does not take place due to the blocking of the implementation of the Minsk agreements by the aggressor country. The last time nine illegally deprived Ukrainian citizens from the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk region were transferred on April 16, 2020 years, “the Ombudsman emphasized.
Currently, according to Denisova, the separatists are holding 301 Ukrainian citizens in prisons: 224 in Donetsk and 77 in Luhansk region.
“Due to the suspension of the liberation process, the rights to life and safety of our fellow citizens who are in places of detention in uncontrolled territories have been violated. Since the beginning of the year, four citizens of Ukraine have died in the colonies in the Donetsk region because of the criminal inaction of the occupation administration,” Denisova said.
She asked the head of the ICRC mission in Ukraine, Florence Gillette, to visit the Makeyevka correctional colony to check the circumstances of the death of the Ukrainian citizen and the state of respect for the rights of other detained persons.
She also appealed to the OSCE to urgently take measures to respond to the death of a Ukrainian and to unblock the process of detained persons.
“I emphasize that this process must be restored without delay, because the lives of hundreds of our fellow citizens are under threat. I express my condolences to Ruslan’s family and friends,” the Ombudsman concluded.
We will remind, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky during his visit to the United States conveyed to the head of the White House Joe Biden lists of Ukrainians captured and missing in the Donbass and in the annexed Crimea.
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