As of July 11, 2017 on the territory of Ukraine controlled by Kiev, more than 1,500 people were sentenced to life imprisonment.
This is stated in the answer of the Ministry of Justice to the information request "Apostrophe".
"On the territory of Ukraine at the moment, 1522 people have been sentenced to life imprisonment.
Of these, 21 are women, "reads the document.
These data do not include information from the occupied territories of the Crimea and Donbass.
It is worth noting, previously it was repeatedly said that in Ukraine too often courts sentenced people to life imprisonment. For example, even in neighboring Russia, whose population is at least 3 times the population of Ukraine, to life imprisonment, according to some reports, just over 2 thousand people were sentenced.