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| Russia jails Ukraine director Sentsov on terror charges | Russia jails Ukraine director Sentsov on terror charges |
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| A court in Russia has jailed Ukrainian film-maker Oleg Sentsov for 20 years for plotting terrorist acts in Crimea. | |
| Sentsov was arrested in May 2014 during a protest against Russia's annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula two months earlier. | Sentsov was arrested in May 2014 during a protest against Russia's annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula two months earlier. |
| He denies the charges against him and his cause has been taken up by other directors, including Mike Leigh, Stephen Daldry and Pedro Almodovar. | He denies the charges against him and his cause has been taken up by other directors, including Mike Leigh, Stephen Daldry and Pedro Almodovar. |
| Russia denies claims that he is a political prisoner. | Russia denies claims that he is a political prisoner. |
| Another Crimea activist, Alexander Kolchenko, who was being tried with Sentsov, was sentenced to 10 years. | |
| After the verdict was read out, both defendants sang the Ukrainian national anthem in the military court in Rostov-on-Don. | |
| Sentsov, best known for his 2011 film Gamer, was accused of plotting to blow up a monument to Lenin in Crimea and set fire to the Crimean offices of pro-Moscow political organisations. | |
| The Ukrainian government says he is being punished for being a Crimea-based pro-Ukrainian activist. | |
| The 39-year-old director is one of a number of Ukrainian figures held by Russia. Military pilot Nadiya Savchenko is also facing trial in southern Russia, accused of killing two people. | |
| Both have been described by the US as Ukrainian hostages held by Russia. |