Crimean savagely beaten for pro-Ukraine views gets 2-year prison sentence for ‘extremism’

Monday, May 7, 2018 - 0:43 (EET) Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)

Ihor Movenko has been sentenced by a court in Russian-occupied Sevastopol to two years in a minimum security prison for a comment on the VKontakte social network. The comments were only ‘noticed’ and a criminal prosecution launched after Movenko demanded an investigation into the brutal and unprovoked attack by a police officer that had left him hospitalized …read more

Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group