22-10-2019 17:29 via news.yahoo.com

Pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine jail journalist for 15 years for spying

Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine said on Tuesday they had sentenced a journalist to 15 years in prison after a court found him guilty of spying on behalf of Ukraine's SBU intelligence service.Stanislav Aseyev, 30, disappeared in Ukraine's Donetsk region in June 2017 where he was working under a pen name for the Ukrainian service of U.S.-government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), among other outlets.A statement issued by the Prosecutor General's office in the self-procl
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