A court in Ukraine's Russia-controlled Crimea region has sentenced pro-Kyiv activist Volodymyr Balukh to three years and seven months in a high-profile retrial on a weapons- and explosives-possession charge, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
A prosecutor in Ukraine's Russia-controlled Crimea region has asked a court to sentence pro-Kyiv activist Volodymyr Balukh to five years and one month in prison in a high-profile retrial on a weapons and explosives possession charge, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
A Russian-controlled court in occupied Crimea has revised pre-trial restrictions for Ukrainian political prisoner Volodymyr Balukh, who was remanded in a pre-trial detention center, and placed him under house arrest.
A 46-year-old Volodymyr Balukh, a Ukrainian activist and recognized political prisoner, has been sentenced to 3 years, seven months after a gravely flawed trial which human rights groups have condemned as reprisals for his open opposition to Russia's occupation of his native Crimea – and, effectively, for a Ukrainian flag, according to Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KhPG).
Maria Bedritskaya, the de facto judge in a politically-motivated trial against pro-Ukrainian activist Volodymyr Balukh in Russian-occupied Crimea, wants to go on holiday and has clearly been told she cannot until she 'convicts' him, according to Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KhPG).