KYIV. April 26 (Interfax) - Verkhovna Rada human rights ombudsman Liudmyla Denysova has briefed her Russian counterpart Tatyana Moskalkova on the situation surrounding Russian Yelena Odnovol arrested by the Kherson City Court, according to Moscow's information, and believed to be a Ukrainian citizen in Kyiv.
"The Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada human rights ombudsman said in her response that a representative of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada human rights ombudsman's Secretariat in the Kherson region attended a Kherson City Court session to monitor the observance of Yelena Odnovol's procedural rights on April 25, 2018. At the same time, it was established at an open-door court session that Yelena Odnovol's procedural rights were not breached," the press service of the Ukrainian ombudsman reported on Thursday.
Odnovol is suspected of state treason, Denysova said. She was placed under arrest until June 21.
"Denysova assured her Russian counterpart that observing citizen Odnovol's rights is under her personal control," the human rights ombudsman's secretariat said.
Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko said on April 23 that the Ukrainian female citizen, who according to Ukrainian special services, had been an authorized representative of the then Russian presidential candidate Vladimir Putin, had been detained at the Chongar border checkpoint.
The woman was a member of the Volunteers of Victory youth non-governmental national public organization in Crimea and set up centers for collecting signatures prior to the March 18 Russian presidential election, according to the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU). Agents of the special services have obtained information that the woman is planning to travel to Ukraine for private matters and have detained her afterwards.