The teacher from the Crimea Yury Ilchenko, which the Russian special services accused of extremism, said that he offered to accept Russian citizenship in exchange for freedom.
In Kiev held a press conference Ilchenko, who escaped from house arrest in the Crimea on the territory of mainland Ukraine.
2, 2015, according to the Ministry of information policy of Ukraine, he was detained by officers of the Russian Federal security service and placed on 11 months in the detention center of Simferopol. In early June of this year he was released under house arrest.
Ilchenko was accused of that in the publications in social networks, he did not recognize the legality of the annexation of Crimea to Russia.
At a press conference Ilchenko said that the reason for his detention was a post in which he called on the Ukrainian authorities to do more to block the Peninsula.
Ilchenko said that he was put to the criminals convicted in criminal cases, and beaten while in custody. Moreover, according to him, the inmates acted in the interests of the investigation.
In regional management FSIN the Russian service Bi-bi-si refused to comment on Ilchenko.
Ilchenko admitted that fled two months ago. On the night of June 12, he cut the bracelet passed to law enforcement authorities information about his whereabouts, then fled through the forest and went to the border by hitchhiking. Border, he crossed a booby-trapped forest at night, and then headed for the Ukrainian border guards.
After he got on the territory of Ukraine, Ilchenko went to Lviv, where he helped the organization Crimeasos. The organization confirms the version at the press conference, said Ilchenko.
“2 June 2016 Yury was released under house arrest, where he escapes a few days, cutting off a bracelet that he had on his leg. At night, he catches a taxi and arrives to the border in Armyansk and just climbs over the fence,” – said the portal “Crimea.The realities of” co-founder of the public organization “Crimeasos” Alim Aliyev.
Crimeasos within two months Ilchenko supported financially and legally, and also helped to take out from the Crimea to his parents, who also refused to obtain Russian passports.
