Huzhva is being treated abroad and plans to return to Ukraine on February 20.
Huzhva claims Ukraine is pressuring Austria through diplomatic channels in relation to his case.
Huzhva claims attempts to attack him have already been made.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) claim that a USB flash drive with the Defense Ministry’s classified information was found during a search at the office of editor-in-chief of Strana.ua online publication Ihor Huzhva, that’s according to court papers of July 27.
Editor-in-chief of the online newspaper Strana.ua Ihor Huzhva has left the Lukyanivka detention center and talked with journalists, the newspaper reports.
Olena Lukash, who worked as justice minister during ousted Viktor Yanukovych's presidency and who is now the lawyer of editor-in-chief of the online newspaper Strana.ua Ihor Huzhva, has said that his deputy put up UAH 544,000, or US$20,899, bail for him.
Kyiv's Shevchenkivsky district court ruled that Editor-in-chief of the online newspaper Strana.ua Ihor Huzhva, an extortion suspect, must be remanded in custody for 60 days, but the judge also granted UAH 544,000 (US$20,899) bail, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
Editor-in-chief of the online newspaper Strana.ua Ihor Huzhva is facing up to 10 years in prison along with the seizure of property, according to the article of the Criminal Code mentioned by the Ukrainian prosecutor general's press secretary in his case.