Luhansk militants sentence 2 young football fans to 17 & 13 years for ’spying for Ukraine’

Monday, October 30, 2017 - 2:40 (EEST) Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)

Two young football fans seized by militants from the self-proclaimed ‘Luhansk people’s republic’ [LPR] in October 2016 have been ‘sentenced’ to 17 and 13 years. 21-year-old Vlad Ovcharenko and 20-year-old Artem Akhmerov were accused of spying for Ukraine over protests against the ‘LPR flag’, photos with the national flag of Ukraine and following Ovcharenko’s criticism of the militants to a German correspondent …read more

Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group