Zaporozhets pleaded not guilty to the charges. Refusing trial under the Criminal Code, he asserted that as a soldier, he should be tried under the Geneva Convention
The Obolonsky District Court in Kyiv delivered the verdict in the case of the attack on the Equality March, held in Kyiv last June
The verdict, delivered in the case of Ukrainian pilot, MP Nadiya Savchenko in Russia on March 22, has come into force
Other 46 cases are pending consideration
They also sealed the office
The former senior sailor, who served in the Crimean maritime forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, was sentenced to seven years in prison with deprivation of rank.
According to the lawyer, the court may increase his term of imprisonment on trumped-up pretexts.
Sentsov and Kolchenko began to sing the anthem of Ukraine after the verdict had been pronounced
Human rights advocates are alarmed by the number of countries that used in death penalty 2014 in response to real or perceived threats to state security and public safety posed by terrorism, crime, or internal instability
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