The Appeal Court of Kyiv City has released from custody illegally an arrested Euromaidan activist, Oleksandr Ostaschenko, the press service of Batkivschyna party said.

Batkivschyna MP Pavlo Petrenko ammounced the release.

As reported, on December 1, Kyiv's Shevchenkivsky District Court ordered the detention for two months of all nine persons suspected of organizing mass riots on Bankova Street near the Presidential Administration on December 1. They are suspected of resisting the police, deliberately inflicting bodily injuries on police, organizing mass unrest and making attempts on the life of a law enforcement official, and could be imprisoned from five to eight years.

After appeals from journalists, MPs, Ukraine's ombudsperson and foreign embassies, the prosecutor's office declared these people as victims of crimes and started inquiries and forensic examinations in a criminal case regarding the breaking of the law by Berkut security officers.

All nine arrested people previously had no problems with law, and were not members of political parties. These are journalist Valeriy Harahuts, long-distance truck driver Vladyslav Zahovorko, trade employee Hennadiy Cherevko, private entrepreneur Yuriy Bolotov, photographer Serhiy Nuzhnenko, shop assistant Yaroslav Prytulenko, designer Mykola Lazarevsky, architect Oleksandr Ostaschenko and IT student Yehor Previr.