Ukraine Denies House Arrest To Jailed Suspect In 2016 Journalist Killing
January 19, 2021 17:37 GMT
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A Ukrainian court has rejected a request by a jailed suspect in the high-profile 2016 killing of journalist Pavel Sheremet to be transferred to house arrest.
Kyiv’s Shevchenko district court on January 19 ordered Andriy Antonenko to be remanded in pretrial detention.
Sheremet, a Belarusian-born Russian citizen who had made Kyiv his permanent home, was leaving his apartment to head to the studio where he hosted a morning radio show when an improvised explosive device planted under his vehicle exploded on July 20, 2016, killing him.
Antonenko and two other suspects, Yulia Kuzmenko and Yana Duhar, were arrested in December 2019. Duhar and Kuzmenactuako were later transferred to house arrest.
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