Far-right activist who ripped up Poroshenko portrait has sentence quashed

Thursday, December 8, 2016 - 3:28 (EET) Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)

The Vinnytsa Regional Court of Appeal has quashed a 4.5 year sentence against activist Yury Pavlenko [Khort] which gained publicity, perhaps unwarrantedly, over the activist’s ripping up of a portrait of President Petro Poroshenko …read more

Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group