A court in Russian-occupied Crimea has sentenced a man who killed his wife, dismembered her body and threw the parts in different rubbish bins to eight years’ imprisonment. The sentence was passed just weeks after a Russian court sentenced four Crimean Tatars to 10 to 17 years merely for ‘kitchen chats’ which were claimed to prove ‘involvement’ in the peaceful Hizb ut-Tahrir movement which is legal in Ukraine. Nor was this a record since three recognized political prisoners, including filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, are currently imprisoned in Russia with sentences of 20 years and over.
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People wearing masks depicting Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov take part in a protest on August 28, 2018, in front of the Russian embassy in Prague.
