Ukrainian political prisoner Alexei Chirniy returned to Ukraine after being released from prison in Russia, said the parliamentary commissioner for human rights Lyudmila Denisova.

" Alexei was illegally detained in several high-security colonies on the territory of the Russian Federation - in Magadan, Moscow, Rostov-on-Don. Today he was released from the maximum security penal colony No. 15 in the city of Bataysk, Rostov region, "

Chirnia was convoyed to the Russian-Ukrainian border for deportation from Russia. The Ombudsman added that he was not allowed to talk to his parents, who came to meet him from the temporarily occupied Crimea..

FSB officers detained Alexei Chirniy in the occupied Crimea in the spring of 2014. He, director Oleg Sentsov, photographer Gennady Afanasyev and activist Alexander Kolchenko were accused of preparing a series of terrorist attacks on the peninsula.

Chirniy and Afanasyev agreed to a "

At the trial, Afanasyev said that he had testified against Sentsov under torture, and refused them..

Kolchenko was sentenced to 10, and Sentsov - to 20 years in a maximum security colony. None of them pleaded guilty.

In June 2016, Afanasyev and another political prisoner, Yuri Soloshenko, were exchanged for Odessa journalists Elena Glishchinskaya and Vitaly Didenko, suspected of involvement in the attempt to create a so-called " Reported by ZN. UA.