The prosecution had sought life imprisonment for all four. The prosecution and the accused have two weeks to appeal to a higher court.
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Netherlands In 2014 a court of malaysian plane MH-17 Two Russian citizens and one Ukrainian citizen have been sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of murder in absentia in connection with the accident in Ukraine. At the same time, a Russian citizen has been acquitted for lack of evidence. in this accident plane A total of 298 people including passengers and crew members were killed.
Judge Hendrik Steenhuis, head of the bench hearing the case, said evidence presented by prosecutors during the more than two-year trial proved that the Boeing 777 flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur on July 17, 2014, was a pro-Moscow operation. It was the target of a Bak missile fired by Ukrainian insurgents.
After the accident, the debris of the plane and the bodies of the people were scattered in the fields of sunflower and other decisions. Amid worldwide debate over Russia’s attack on Ukraine, the court also said that the plane was attacked from the eastern part of Ukraine and that Russia had full control over the Donetsk People’s Republic present there. None of the defense appeared in the trial, which began in March 2020, and despite being sentenced, there is little chance that they will serve their sentence in the near future.
The prosecution had sought life imprisonment for all four. The prosecution and the accused have two weeks to appeal to a higher court. There were at least twenty family groups on board and 80 passengers were under the age of 18.
the crew were all malaysians
The investigation into the attack on the plane was entrusted to the Dutch Safety Board (DSB) and the Dutch-led Joint Investigation Team (JIT), who concluded that the plane was hit by a surface-to-air missile launched from pro-Russian separatist-controlled territory in Ukraine. I was shot down by a missile. The crew were all Malaysian, while two-thirds (68%) of the passengers were from the Netherlands. Most of the other passengers were Malaysians and Australians; The remaining seven were citizens of other countries.
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