Гаряча лінія
Гаряча лінія
Pavlo Podvezko, a 33-year-old citizen of Ukraine, is being held illegally in the Makeyevka Correctional Facility №32 in the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk Region. This was announced by the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Lyudmyla Denisova.
Pavlo was detained by representatives of the occupation administration on May 26, 2018 during a morning football match at the Peremoha Stadium in Makeyevka, in which he participated. People in uniform without identification waited for him for the whole match, and then, not even allowing him to change his clothes, took him away in an unknown direction.
A few days later, his apartment was searched and a computer with the screensaver "Donetsk is Ukraine" was confiscated.
Pavlo spent the first few months in the Isolation torture chamber, and then he was taken to the pre-trial detention center of the so-called DNR Ministry of State Security on the territory of the G97 penal colony in Makeyevka.
Pavel Podvezko has been accused of writing posts on Twitter since the start of the war about what he saw around him - where the shelling was taking place and where Russian military equipment was heading.
On December 12, 2019, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison for "espionage."
Paul has a cyst of the midline of the brain, which requires constant medical supervision, which is not carried out in prison. He is not receiving any medical care.
"All the above actions against Pavel Podvezko are violations not only of Ukrainian law but also of international law, including the 1949 Geneva Conventions on the Rules of War, the Additional Protocols to the 1977 Geneva Conventions and the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. 1950, "said Lyudmila Denisova.
The Commissioner appeals to the ICRC leadership in Ukraine to pay an urgent visit to Pavel Podvezko and facilitate his immediate release.
The Ombudsman also asks the OSCE Co-ordinator in the Humanitarian Subgroup of the Tripartite Contact Group, Charlotte Relander, to intervene personally to raise the issue of his release.