Ukraine has decided to suspend the extradition to Russia of a suspect in a
foiled plot to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said it would review
the case, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday, August 21, the Kiev Post
reports.
A Ukrainian court adopted a decision to extradict Adam Osmayev, who is
suspected of plotting an assassination of Putin this week. However,
this decision was questioned by the Strasbourg ECHR court.
"Ukraine has suspended Adam Osmayev's extradition. The Prosecutor
General's office on August 17 received a ruling by the ECHR informing
it that the court was reviewing Osmayev's appeal against the
extradition," Interfax news agency quotes a foreign ministry
spokesman as saying.
It has been reported that Osmayev requested political assylum in Ukraine but has been refused.
