Over the past 5 days, since Ukrainian Parliament’s Human Rights Commissioner Liudmyla Denysova went to Russia to visit Ukrainian political prisoners held in Russian prisons, she has already been denied access to Oleh Sentsov, Mykola Karpiuk and a Ukrainian journalist Roman Sushchenko, according to Iryna Gerashchenko, First Vice Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
UNIAN: Ukrainian Ombudsperson denied access to journalist Sushchenko
Journalist Roman Sushchenko, who worked for Ukrainian state news agency Ukrinform for over a decade, gestures in the court in Moscow on June 4, 2018.
A Russian court on June 4, 2018 sentenced Sushchenko to 12 years in a strict regime penal colony after he was found guilty of espionage, in a case that has earned condemnation from Kyiv.
