At the Odesa remand prison, a person was found to have been held in custody for almost ten years without a guilty verdict from a court.
This was reported by the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets.
According to the Ombudsman, a total of 93 people in the remand prison have been waiting for a guilty verdict for more than three years. One of the accused has been in the facility since October 2016.
In addition, the monitoring group identified evidence of possible falsification of official documents. In response, the State Bureau of Investigation entered the information into the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations and launched an inquiry.
During the inspection, the Ombudsman’s representatives also recorded a case involving violations of the rights of a detainee with serious illnesses. The man was placed in a punishment cell without a prior medical examination and without being provided with the necessary medicines.
The circumstances surrounding the identified violations are being monitored by the relevant authorities.