On March 7, prisoner of the Kremlin Shyptur was released due to the expiration of his 9-year sentence. As soon as he left the colony, a car of Russia’s Migration Service was waiting for him outside.

‍By June 6, representatives of the Center must check Shyptur's documents and release him. How the man will get to Ukraine without consular support remains unknown.

‍“Mykola is given phone from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. He says little about his condition. He says that everything is fine, but I understand that in these circumstances he cannot tell the truth about his conditions of detention”, Yuliia, Shyptur's wife, commented to the Association. Earlier we reported that Mykola Shyptur is being kept in the Center's SHIZO.

Prisoner Andrii Zakhtei, whose sentence has also expired, is being held in the same Center in Rostov region since February 10. His wife, Oksana, said that the conditions of detention in the Center are even worse than in the strict regime colony: the former prisoners do not receive adequate nutrition and drink water from a rusty tap.Yuliia previously appealed to the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights with this issue, but the answer was that since Ukraine no longer had diplomatic relations with Russia they could not help her.

‍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 Simferopol's colony No. 1 in terrible sanitary conditions.