Kyiv Court of Appeal, during a sitting on Aug. 11, has ruled to mitigate the pre-trial restriction for Yulia Kuzmenko, a suspect in the case on the murder of journalist Pavlo Sheremet.
“Yulia Kuzmenko was released for around-the-clock home arrest. This is a small, but very important victory,” the Free Dr Kuzmenko community said on Facebook.
The court sitting was not broadcast.
As reported, Sheremet was killed in a car explosion in central Kyiv on July 20, 2016. The explosion occurred when Sheremet was driving a vehicle that belonged to Ukrayinska Pravda co-founder Olena Prytula, who was not in it at the time. The journalist died at the scene shortly following the bomb blast.
Military nurse Yana Duhar, volunteer and children’s doctor Yulia Kuzmenko, and musician and veteran of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) in Donbas Andriy Antonenko were officially notified of being suspected of killing Sheremet.
The pre-trial investigation was completed on May 22.
The National Police of Ukraine many times called on the suspects and their defense lawyers to not delay the process of familiarizing themselves with the case files so that a court could start the consideration of the case as soon as possible.
Antonenko is under arrest. The court ruled to cancel the pre-trial restriction for Duhar in the form of house arrest during night time.
