Crimean court sentences Russian-Ukrainian journalist to six years in prison

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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the travesty of justice in Russian-annexed Crimea in which a journalist originally said to have spied for Ukraine was sentenced to six years in prison on an explosives charge yesterday at the end of a sham trial behind closed doors in the municipal courthouse in Simferopol, Crimea’s second largest city.

Vladislav Yesypenko, a reporter with Ukrainian and Russian dual nationality who covered Crimea for Krym.Realii, the local branch of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), wa

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