3 sentenced to life for downing Malaysia Airlines flight MH17

STORY: 3 sentenced to life for downing Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 DATELINE: Nov. 18, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:18 LOCATION: THE HAGUE, the Netherlands CATEGORY: LAW SHOTLIST: 1. various of the court on Nov. 17, 2022 on the trial of suspects for downing the flight STORYLINE: Dutch judges on Thursday sentenced three suspects in absentia to life imprisonment for their involvement in the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 in 2014, which led to the loss of 298 people. A fourth suspect, a Russian citizen also in absentia, was acquitted. The three were also ordered to pay more than 16 million euros (16.5 million U.S. dollars) in damages to the relatives of the victims. The sentences were announced following a two-hour hearing in a high-security court house near Amsterdam in the presence of the victims' relatives. "The court considers it proven that flight MH17 was hit by a Buk missile fired from an agricultural field near (the village of) Pervomaiskyi in Ukraine. This was in separatist-controlled territory