On March 7, Mykola Shyptur was released due to the expiration of his sentence, but he has not really gotten free. As soon as he left the colony, where he had been illegally detained for 9 years, a car of the russian Migration Service was waiting for him outside.

‍The employees of the Center explain such a long detention by the fact that the FSB needs to additionally check his documents. Shyptur's passport is valid.Mykola is almost not allowed to use phone, but when he does get in touch, he asks his wife Yuliia to “get him out”.  

Yuliia is confused as she does not understand how to get her husband back home. She addressed the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights with this issue, but the answer was that they could not help her cause Ukraine no longer had diplomatic relations with Russia.

As a reminder, Mykola Shyptur was detained on March 9, 2014 and imprisoned for participating in a pro-Ukrainian action on the occasion of the 200^th anniversary of T. Shevchenko's birthday in Sevastopol. Torture was used to force Mykola to testify against himself. Shyptur served his illegal sentence in terrible sanitary conditions in colony No. 1 of Simferopol.