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Ukrainian Filmmaker Sentenced to 20 Years by Russian Court


ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia—A Russian court convicted a prominent Ukrainian filmmaker on Tuesday of conspiring to commit terror attacks and sentenced him to 20 years in prison.
The court in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don said Oleg Sentsov had set up a terror cell in the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia annexed last year, and was plotting attacks. He will serve time in a maximum-security prison.
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Such lengthy prison sentences are rare in Russia even for politically tainted trials.
Sentsov was tried along with a local activist …read more

Source: The Epoch Times

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