The FINANCIAL — The EU has called for the immediate release of two Ukrainian nationals arrested in Crimea last May and sentenced on August 25 by a Russian military court on charges of terrorism.
The North Caucasus military court in Russia sentenced Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov to twenty years’ imprisonment on charges of terrorism and his co-defendant Oleksandr Kolchenko to ten years’ imprisonment, according to EU Neighbourhood Info.
A statement by EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said the EU had been following the case since the men’s arrest. Known to oppose the illegal annexation of the Crimean Peninsula by Russia, they were arrested in May 2014 in relation to alleged activities conducted on the peninsula.
“Russian courts are not competent to judge acts committed outside the internationally-recognised territory of Russia,” the statement said, adding that the EU considers the case to be in breach of international law and elementary standards of justice.
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