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Associated Press: Russia resorted to ‘Stalinist-era show trials’ to send a Ukrainian filmmaker to prison for 20 years

By Associated Press.

Published Aug. 25, 2015 at 8:09 pm

Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov stands inside a defendants' cage during a hearing at a military court in the city of Rostov-on-Don on July 21, 2015.

Photo by AFP

ROSTOV-ON-DON - A Russian military court convicted a prominent Ukrainian filmmaker on Aug. 25 of conspiring to commit terror attacks and sentenced him to 20 years in prison in what critics called a politically motivated show trial.