A Russian court most notorious for its illegal trials of Ukrainian political prisoners has moved into a spectacular new building, which Moscow sees no reason to economize on. The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don has also changed its name since Russia’s invasion and annexation of Crimea, but it is the same court that, since its 20-year sentence against Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov in 2016, has been issuing sentence after sentence against Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners, including one, Pavlo Hryb, who was abducted from Belarus.
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Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov stands inside a defendants' cage during a hearing at a military court in the city of Rostov-on-Don on July 21, 2015.
