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Stanislav Klykh is going to meet his 42nd birthday in a Russian pretrial detention center. He has been under custody for almost one and a half years, having been arrested on 11 August 2014 during a visit to his girlfriend in the city of Orel. Like 20 other Ukrainians highlighted in the #LetMyPeopleGo campaign, he is being held on political grounds, accused of crimes he didn’t commit.

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