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Halya Coynash: Five-year sentence for vicious beating of Maidan activist
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Protesters clash with police outside the Cabinet of Ministers on Hrushevsky Street in Kyiv on Nov. 24, 2013, during the EuroMaidan Revolution.
Volodymyr Savytsky has been sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment for the brutal beating of a Euromaidan activist in February 2014. Ukrainian News reports that the sentence was passed by the Bohunsky District Court on September 6.