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Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Valeria Lutkovska has noted an increase in the number of cases of unfair prosecution of Ukrainian citizens who are working in Russia and who have decided to return home or terminate contracts, according to TV Channel 112 Ukraine.
"The number of detainees is on the rise: those who went to work to the Russian Federation but were unhappy with terms of a contract or its execution and decided to rescind the contract and return home – they found themselves behind bars with charges of transporting smoking mixtures with narcotic substances or other accusations. The number of such people is increasing," Lutkovska told 112 Ukraine.
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"I would ask participants in the ATO not to go to the territory of the Russian Federation not only because we have the ATO in our [country] now," she added.
As UNIAN reported, Lutkovska said on December 1, 2017, that more than 2,200 Ukrainians having different procedural status had been imprisoned in Russia by that time. In her words, these are Ukrainians convicted of criminal offenses, as well as those who were victims of human trafficking, but were convicted for political reasons.