Russia has jailed a Ukrainian film-maker for 20 years in what the EU called a “breach of international law and elementary standards of justice”.
A court in Rostov-on-Don, near the Ukrainian border, found 39-year old Oleg Sentsov guilty of terrorism and handed down the sentence on Tuesday (25 August).
It jailed Oleksandr Kolchenko, a fellow Ukrainian activist, for 10 years.
The trial breached international law because they were detained by Russian forces in Crimea, Ukraine, ...
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