Third of prisoners released by Russians in Kherson returned to remand centre
Law enforcement officers have returned 166 of approximately 457 prisoners, who were released by the Russians before the liberation of Kherson by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, to a remand centre; among them are some who had been sentenced to life imprisonment.
Source: Ihor Klymenko, Head of the National Police of Ukraine, on air during the national 24/7 newscast on Tuesday
Quote: "Currently, information on the detention and return of 166 prisoners to detention centres in Mykolaiv and Odesa oblasts has been confirmed."
Details: According to him, the police, together with the Ministry of Justice and the Prosecutor General's Office, are clarifying the lists of people who were released from detention centres by the occupiers. He emphasised that among the prisoners are some serving life sentences.
The official clarified that there are about 457 people who had been arrested and imprisoned, at least 15 of whom were serving life sentences.
Quote: "This information was promptly transferred to the headquarters of the National Police, to the checkpoints, [and] to the regional units of the police, so that we could return these people to their places of imprisonment in the coming hours and days."
Background:
- In March, the Russians took over the Kherson pre-trial detention centre and equipped it for the needs of the National Guard of the Russian Federation.
- In the evening of 11 November, it became known that the building of the detention centre in Kherson caught fire. On the same day, Kherson was liberated by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
- On the morning of 15 November, Yevhen Yenin, the First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, announced on the national newscast that the Ukrainian military found the files of 457 convicts in the Kherson detention centre. They served their terms in various penal colonies and temporarily ended up in the Kherson detention centre. After the Russians fled, all the convicts escaped, too.
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