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RFE/RL: Ukrainian court sentences Crimean woman for treason

Published Aug. 17, 2018 at 4:43 pm

Russian Ombudswoman Tatiana Moskalkova speaks to media representatives as she stands in front of a detention centre in Kiev on June 26, 2018.The Russian rights official was barred from visiting a Russian citizen Maksim Odintsov, who is being held in custody in Kiev, as the two countries are locked in a spiralling conflict over the fate of prisoners, which is mainly focused on a Russian-jailed hunger-striking Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov.

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A court in Ukraine has issued a suspended three-year prison sentence against a woman from Crimea charged with high treason.

Russian human rights ombudswoman Tatyana Moskalkova says her Ukrainian counterpart, Lyudmyla Denisova, informed her a court in Ukraine’s southern city of Kherson accepted a guilty plea from Olena Odnovol and sentenced her on August 16.