Pavel Grib

A resident of Kiev, a childhood invalid, his illness is related to the consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident. He has portal hypertension - a syndrome of increased pressure in the venous trunk entering the liver.

According to his parents, on 24 August 2017, Hryb went to Gomel to meet a girl, a resident of Sochi, whom he met on social networks, after which he disappeared. Hryb himself says that the FSB officers detained him on the territory of Belarus after a brief date with the girl and took him to Russia. According to the official version, Grib was detained in the Smolensk region, at the railway station in the town of Yartsevo. The parents found out where their son was only two weeks after his disappearance.

Grib was accused of proposing to a Sochi resident to detonate a bomb at a school assembly. He was charged under the article on facilitation of terrorist activity.

Parents believe that the reason for Grib's persecution was his aggressive statements against Russia on social networks. A girl from Sochi, Tatiana, whom Hryb met on social networks, told reporters that she was forced to meet him in Belarus by the FSB officers. She was prosecuted under the same article as Hryb, but they promised to close the case in exchange for help in obtaining information about the young man.

For many months, his parents were not allowed to see their son, as well as no transmissions and letters reached him. Consuls and a lawyer were allowed to see him only three times in nine months. According to the defence lawyer, since his arrest, Hryb has not received the necessary medication and Ukrainian doctors have not been allowed to visit him.

In July 2018, it became known about the transfer of the case to the court. On 23 July, the court returned Hryb's case to the Prosecutor's office for elimination of violations. On 16 November, the consideration of the case on the merits began. On 22 March 2019, Grib was sentenced to six years in a general regime colony. On the same day he went on hunger strike due to the lack of medical care. On 7 September 2019, he was pardoned and released as part of the exchange of Ukrainian political prisoners for groups of people released by Ukraine, arrived on the territory of Ukraine.