Kharkov separatist Apukhtina soon released

KHARKOV-KIEV. 20 Dec. UNN. The court of appeal Kharkiv region took the activist of the movement “South-East” 69-year-old Yuri Apukhtina allegations of calls for violent overthrow of state power in Ukraine. About it the correspondent of UNN reported in the court.

Earlier, the Kyiv district court sentenced for organizing mass riots and calls to “struggle with this authority the coordinator of the “Russian vesni” Yuri Apukhtina to six years of imprisonment.

However, the so-called “Law Savchenko”, he had to spend behind bars for about a year.

We note that the parties remained dissatisfied with the decision, and the defendant, and the prosecution appealed.

The court of second instance sided with Apukhtina and stripped him of the charges in the second article, with the result that he soon will be free.

Help UNN: Yuri Apukhtina was arrested in April 2014 for the organization of mass riots, including the storming of the Kharkiv regional state administration, as well as calls to create a “HNR” and “Constitution XH”. In may, he was released on bail, included former people’s Deputy Oleg Tsarev. Then Apukhtin seen as an organizer of Pro-Russian rallies in Kharkiv. Again arrested in December and placed in jail. In August 2014, the Kharkiv district administrative court banned separatist organization “South-East“, which was Apukhtin.