NEWSWATCH Kyiv Post: “Protester who tore up Poroshenko’s photo gets 4.5 years in jail”

A court in Vinnytsia, a city 270 kilometers southwest from Kyiv, sentenced local activist Yuriy Pavlenko to 4.5 years in prison for hooliganism with a use of a weapon. Pavlenko denies the charges, saying that he is being punished for publicly tearing up the portrait of Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko during a protest action. … activists protested to stop the Oblast Council from dismissing its head Serhiy Svytko … brought to power in the wake of … EuroMaidan …. According to some media reports … activists used stun grenades and broke into the building, interrupting the council’s meeting. … other media reported that the protesters entered the building peacefully.

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