A YEAR AFTER: MAIN VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN CRIMEA PART 4 Yury Shevchenko Yuri Shevchenko, a young man from Pavlohrad in Dnipropetrovsk region who was not an activist and was not interested in politics, happened to be put in the same basement previously shared by Shckekun and Kovalsky. He was visiting his friend in Simferopol but was detained on the Simferopol railway station because he was taken for ‘an activist of some Andrey Shchekun and Yury Shevchenko in the radical organization’. hospital aſt er their release ‘These people were very aggressive. When I asked whether they were the militiamen, they simply twisted my arms behind my back, handcuR ed me, and threw me in a car, on the < oor between front and rear seats. They yelled, ‘You jerk, moron, came here to rain on our parade’. Then a man on a front seat drew out a knife and threatened to cut me in pieces right here. And he cut a piece of my ear … .’ From Yury Shevchenko’s interview to the Belarusian edition ‘Novy Chas’, March 22, 2014. According to Yury, he was brought to the unknown place, thrown out on the street, severely beaten right on the pavement, and then handed over to another group. If the former by description, was similar to so-called ‘Crimean self-defense’, the latter was dressed in ‘Russian birch’ uniform; they were masked men with radiosets and machine guns. Some of them said, ‘Shoot his f…ing legs.’ And Yury was shot in both legs; the bullets were extracted in Kherson, more than a week later. In the Crimean capture, Yury Shevchenko had a piece of ear cut and his legs shot through. Photo by: novychas.info 61