MOSCOW: Russian prosecutors on Wednesday demanded that Ukrainian film-maker Oleg Sentsov be jailed for 23 years on terror charges, in a trial decried by the West.
Sentsov and another Ukrainian from Crimea, Alexander Kolchenko, have been held since May 2014 are accused of setting a pro-Kremlin party office on fire and wanting to blow up a statue of Vladimir Lenin in Crimea’s main city Simferopol.
Prosecutors also asked the court to jail Kolchenko, a pro-Kiev activist in Crimea who opposed the peninsula’s annexation by Moscow last year, for 12 years.
Supporters of the two men, who are being tried as Russians despite never …read more
Source: theSun
