: :inin Kyiv (EET)

Russia court jails Ukrainian filmmaker for ‘terrorism’


A Russian military court on Tuesday sentenced a Ukrainian filmmaker to 20 years in a prison colony on terror charges in a trial condemned by Kiev, Western rights groups and top film directors.Oleg Sentsov, 39, was convicted of masterminding arson attacks on pro-Kremlin party offices in Crimea after Russia seized the peninsula from Ukraine in March last year, and for plotting further attacks, including a scheme to blow up a Lenin statue in the main Crimean city of Simferopol.His fellow Ukrainian defendant Alexander Kolchenko, a 25-year-old activist who also opposed Russia’s annexation of Crimea, was sentenced to 10 years after …read more

Source: The Jakarta Post

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