Just a reminder: you can find our full English transcript of Oleh Sentsov's moving speech from the dock here
Brian Whitmore, author of the Power Vertical blog, is in no doubt about what the incarceration of Eston Kohver, Oleh Sentsov, and Nadia Sentsov means:
One is a police officer; one is a filmmaker; and one is a pilot.
Three people illegally abducted from their homelands and unjustly incarcerated by a rogue foreign power -- their lives uprooted and disrupted, their futures in doubt.
Meet Vladimir Putin's hostages, two men and a woman who have become victims of the Kremlin leader's jihad against international rules, norms, and law.
Putin has done many shocking and disturbing things in the past couple of years.
He's the first leader to forcibly annex another country's territory in Europe since Adolf Hitler. He started a completely manufactured war in eastern Ukraine that has killed thousands. He's plunged Russia into an absurd spiral of xenophobia, intolerance, and repression. He's engaged in a dangerous game of brinksmanship with the West.
And he's also become a kidnapper -- the functional equivalent of an international crime boss.
Read the entire article here
Hmmm, this could get someone in trouble, if the claim is taken seriously