Protesters outside the Russian embassy in Kiev demand the release of Oleg Sentsov and Aleksander Kolchenko on August 25, 2015. Photo by Inna Sokolovska from Demotix.
A military court in Russia’s Rostov-on-the-Don has sentenced Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov to 20 years of hard labor in a high-security prison on charges of planning a “terrorist attack” in Crimea. Sentsov’s co-defendant, Alexander Kolchenko, was sentenced to 10 years in prison. RuNet Echo rounds up the Internet’s reactions to the trial, the sentences, and their implications for access to justice in Russia.
Sentsov, a native of Crimea, is an independent film director and pro-Ukrainian activist. …read more
Source: Global Voices
