Stanislav Klykh

Stanislav Klykh is a Ukrainian journalist, public figure and teacher. Detained in Orel in August 2014. He was accused of participation in hostilities in Chechnya in 1994-1995 on the side of separatists as a member of the Ukrainian militant group UNA-UNSO and of killing Russian servicemen. Another defendant in the case, Alexander Malofeev, testified against him (apparently as a result of torture). For about a year nothing was known about Klykh, he was not allowed to conclude an agreement with a lawyer, and the consul was not allowed to visit him. During this time, he managed to confess to himself and other people involved in the case. He retracted his testimony when a defence lawyer was able to enter into the case under the agreement. He claimed that he gave them through torture. Claimed that he hadn't been in Chechnya and hadn't participated in the activities of UNA-UNSO. In September 2015, the hearing of the case in the Supreme Court of Chechnya began. His aggressive and apathetic behaviour in court caused concern to his lawyer Marina Dubrovina, who was representing him: she demanded to find out what medication he was being given, but was unable to find out anything. In early April 2016, it became known that Klykh had a new case of contempt of court for insulting the prosecutor during the session.

The jury found Klykh guilty but deserving leniency. On 26 May 2016, the court sentenced him to twenty years in a strict regime colony.

In the second case, Klykh was sentenced to 240 hours of compulsory labour, replaced by one month in a penal colony.

On 7 September 2019, Klykh was pardoned and released as part of the exchange of Ukrainian political prisoners for a group of people released by Ukraine, arrived on the territory of Ukraine.