His lawyer Mykola Polozov told News on Suspilne News Channel about it.

According to him, the defence has already filed an appeal. On April 20 this year, a hearing on the merits of Ivan Yatskin's case will take place.

"He was transferred from the Lefortovo pre-trial detention centre to the Crimea on 9 of April, that is, he has been in the Simferopol pre-trial detention centre for four days now. He is being held in a quarantine cell of 10 people", - the lawyer reported.

Polozov also noted that the prosecutor requested an extension of detention for 6 months. The defence requested a change in the measure of restraint, as an alternative to house arrest, given the state of health and the presence of young children.

What is known

• Crimean Ivan Yatskin was detained by occupation security forces in October 2019 and secretly taken to Moscow. Two months later, it became known that he had been arrested. Ivan faces up to 20 years in prison on trumped-up charges of treason.
• On 12 of January, Ivan Yatskin was left on the street for an hour without winter clothes and shoes in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention centre in Russia.
• On 11 of February, the Moscow City Court, without the participation of a lawyer, extended for another two months, until April 16, the arrest of Ivan Yatskin, a Crimean citizen whom the FSS accuses of "espionage" in favour of Ukraine.