The Chechen Supreme Court has sentenced two members of the Ukrainian ultra-right organization UNA-UNSO ?€” Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh ?€” to 22.5 and 20 years in a strict-regime penal colony, the RIA Novosti news agency reported Thursday.
"[Karpyuk and Klykh] have been found guilty of fighting Russian soldiers in Chechnya in 1994-1995," according to the court.
Both Karpyuk and Klykh denied the accusations and claimed that they had never visited Chechnya before the start of their trial, their lawyers said.
UNA-UNSO has been recognized as extremist organization and was banned in Russia by the Supreme Court.