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Sixty convicts have been transferred from the occupied areas of Luhansk region to the government-controlled territory of Ukraine.

Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova informed this on her Facebook page on Friday.

“Again, I am on the bridge in Shchastia. I took 60 citizens of Ukraine, who were held in the penitentiary institutions in the temporarily occupied territory of Luhansk region and were detained or were serving their sentences for crimes at the time of the occupation of Donbas,” she wrote.

She recalled that this was the fifth stage of the transfer of prisoners from ORLO. According to Denisova, from December 2018 to May 2019, 255 convicts were transferred, 105 of them or their relatives directly appealed to the Ukrainian ombudsperson for help.