Lubinets: 219 Crimean pitical prisoners remain in Russian prisons

Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets said this on Ukrainian television, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

“According to our data, there are 219 Crimean pitical prisoners. We have a separate brief that we have develed together with our cleagues, the Permanent Mission of the President of Ukraine in Crimea. We use these materials to draw attention to the illegal detention of citizens on the territory of temporarily occupied Crimea,” the Ombudsman said.

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At the same time, he stated that the Russian side “does not want to raise the issue of the return of pitical prisoners at all”.

As reported by Ukrinform, on September 13, 49 Ukrainians were returned from Russian captivity. Among those freed is a Crimean Tatar activist, Lene Umerova, who was captured by Russians while crossing the border of Georgia.