Kercho Adrian-David
Kercho Adrian-David
Adrian-David Kercho is a Romanian citizen living in England. At the age of 22, he came to Abkhazia to marry a woman he met online. A few months later, in November 2024, he was detained by Abkhaz security forces, who subsequently handed him over to their Russian counterparts. For four months, Adrian-David Kercho was held in a special detention facility, subjected to "carousel arrests" and under the impression that if he confessed to espionage, he would merely be deported from Russia to Romania or exchanged. FSB officers tortured the young man, and he was forced to confess to sending Ukrainian intelligence officers photographs of an air defense installation taken from a quadcopter. The court sentenced Kercho to 15 years in a maximum-security penal colony.