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A Russian court in Rostov-on-Don has handed a 20-year prison sentence in a maximum-security facility to Dmytro Yevhan, a Ukrainian servicemember who was captured defending the Azovstal steelworks plant in Mariupol. Serving in the 36th Marine Brigade, Yevhan lost both his hands during the fighting in Mariupol. He faced charges under multiple articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, including mistreatment of prisoners of war, attempted murder, teaching terrorist activities, and violent seizure of power. The accusations also involved Yevhan allegedly wounding and then mocking a ca...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
A Russian court in Rostov-on-Don has handed a 20-year prison sentence in a maximum-security facility to Dmytro Yevhan, a Ukrainian servicemember who was captured defending the Azovstal steelworks plant in Mariupol. Serving in the 36th Marine Brigade, Yevhan lost both his hands during the fighting in Mariupol. He faced charges under multiple articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, including mistreatment of prisoners of war, attempted murder, teaching terrorist activities, and violent seizure of power. The accusations also involved Yevhan allegedly wounding and then mocking a ca...
Kyiv Independent
A Russian court in Rostov-on-Don has handed a 20-year prison sentence in a maximum-security facility to Dmytro Yevhan, a Ukrainian servicemember who was captured defending the Azovstal steelworks plant in Mariupol. Serving in the 36th Marine Brigade, Yevhan lost both his hands during the fighting in Mariupol. He faced charges under multiple articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, including mistreatment of prisoners of war, attempted murder, teaching terrorist activities, and violent seizure of power. The accusations also involved Yevhan allegedly wounding and then mocking a ca...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
London (AFP) - The death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny was a "very sad day" for Russia, and must lead to international action, the wife of murdered ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko told AFP on Saturday. Navalny, the Kremlin's most prominent critic, died on Friday in an Arctic prison, Russian officials said. Marina Litvinenko, whose husband Alexander died of radiation poisoning in 2006 aged 43, three weeks after drinking tea laced with radioactive polonium at an upmarket London hotel, told AFP she had sympathy with Navalny's wife Yulia. "I do understand Yulia very well, after what happened to ...
AFP
Washington (AFP) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that he spoke with Paul Whelan, a former Marine detained in Russia, as he vowed sustained efforts to free him as well as jailed journalist Evan Gershkovich. Speaking alongside his Canadian counterpart at an event on hostage diplomacy, Blinken said he spoke by telephone with Whelan on Monday. "Our intensive efforts to bring Paul home continue every single day, and they will until he and Evan Gershkovich and every other American wrongfully detained is back with their loved ones," Blinken said at the Wilson Center, a think tank ...
AFP
Washington (AFP) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken marked five years on Wednesday since Russian authorities detained former Marine Paul Whelan, saying the country would "not rest" until he is back home. In an interview published last week, the 53-year-old Whelan told the BBC that he feels "abandoned" and betrayed by his country after being imprisoned in Russia on espionage charges. Whelan was detained on December 28, 2018 and is serving a 16-year sentence for spying, a charge the US government says is without merit. "For far too long, Paul and his family have suffered the consequences of ...
AFP
Washington (AFP) - The White House said Thursday it was preparing a new proposal to Russia to seek the release of two imprisoned Americans after Moscow rejected an earlier attempt. "We're working hard to see what we can do to get another proposal that might be more successful," National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters. The State Department said earlier this month that Russia rejected a "substantial" proposal to free the two Americans -- Wall Street Journal correspondent Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan, a former Marine. Russian President Vladimir Putin later said that he h...
AFP
New York (AFP) - The image in the window announcing the Schomburg Center's current art exhibition holds a sad resonance to many who pass it in New York's Harlem neighborhood. The piece by Larry Cook shows a Black man with his back to the camera in a pose and composition evocative of a prison waiting area in the moments before seeing a loved one. "It gets a lot of attention," said Nicole Fleetwood, curator of the show, "Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration." "Harlem is a hyper-incarcerated community in a global cultural landmark," said Fleetwood, adding that the Cook piece feels ...
AFP
Washington (AFP) - Five Americans freed by Iran in a high-stakes prisoner swap landed back in the United States on Tuesday to a joyous reunion with family members. The five arrived aboard an executive jet at a military airfield in Fort Belvoir southwest of Washington. Relatives waved US flags and hugged the freed prisoners as they disembarked from the aircraft, then posed for a group photograph, grinning widely. "Welcome home," National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan posted on X, formerly Twitter. The former prisoners, including one held for eight years, were part of a rare prisoner exchange b...
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Doha (AFP) - The United States and Iran on Monday swapped five prisoners each in one of the arch-foes' first deals in years as Tehran gained access to $6 billion in frozen funds. The five Americans freed by Iran, including one held for eight years, flew out of Tehran in a Qatari jet, hours after the unblocked funds were deposited in accounts also managed by Qatar. The freed prisoners walked in the setting sun on the tarmac and within hours a separate US government plane shuttled them to Washington, where some will undergo medical check-ups. The White House said Biden held an "emotional call" w...
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