Ruslan Antonik

Journalist Ruslan Antonik serves his sentence as though for the murder of the son-in-law of President Leonid Kuchma’s councilor Anatoly Galchinsky in Drogobych correctional settlement No 14, on the 14th of May, 2005. During five years Ruslan was an exemplary prisoner and the prison administration thinks he could not commit the crime. All the facts confirm his innocence, but a evidence of mentally diseased person was used in the criminal case. For five years Ruslan Antonik’s mother Palageya has been going to the law, but not made a progress. After the coming of new power Palageya met with President Viktor Yushchenko in the hope of judgement review. Photo by Alexander Baran / UNIAN