For 100 days in Russia detained Ukrainian Director Oleg Sentsov is located in the hunger strike. His health condition is considered critical. The most recent petition for clemency, from his mother was rejected. A Portrait.
For 100 days on hunger strike: The Ukrainian film Director Oleg Sentsov
14. May 2018, the Ukrainian film Director Oleg Sentsov started in a prison in Russia’s Labytnangi North of the Arctic circle, with an open-ended hunger strike. Last Tuesday, the Russian human rights activist and journalist, soy Svetova staff of the Russian Federation visited the infirmary. His state of health was “almost critical”, reported the Russian newspaper “Novaya Gazeta”. He had lost 30 pounds, the internal organs could fail at any time.
In spite of all the warnings of staff of the Russian Federation is continuing his hunger strike. His main claim is that all Ukrainian political prisoners to be released from Russian prisons. According to the foreign Ministry in Kiev will be held in Russia, a total of 64 Ukrainian citizens, considered as political prisoners.
The 42-year-old film Director Oleg Sentsov comes from Simferopol in the Crimea. In 2011, he produced the Film “Gamer”, a story about a Cyber-athlete. The Film received several international festival awards. Due to the success of the strip also Senzows moved next project in 2013, the Film “rhinoceros” about children of the 90s, attention.
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Turning Point Of The Maidan
As in the autumn of 2013, the protests on the Maidan, the independence square in Kiev, started, stopped with their own hands to work his movie and supported the Pro-European movement in the country. In February 2014, occupied by the Russian military in the Crimea and blocked the barracks on the Peninsula. With their own hands helped the trapped Ukrainian soldiers with food.
Sentsov was arrested in may 2014 in the Crimea because of terrorist suspicion from Federal security service of Russia (FSB), together with three other persons. Among the group of the Ukrainian activist Oleksandr Koltschenko, as well as the photographer Gennady Afanasyev and the historian Oleksij Tschirnij in addition to staff of the Russian Federation.
The FSB claimed that all the four had planned in Simferopol, Sevastopol and Yalta terrorist attacks. Staff of the Russian Federation have cited, the Russian investigator, a grouping of a total of seven man, which had been the nationalist Ukrainian movement “Right sector” near. According to the other persons allegedly wanted by the police.
Specifically, it was about two incendiary devices – against the door of the offices of the Pro-Kremlin party “United Russia” and the building of the Organisation “Russian community of the Crimea”. They caused minor property damage. In addition, staff of the Russian Federation was accused of, he didn’t want to blow up the Lenin monument and the world war II memorial “Eternal flame”.
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Statement made under torture
Sentsov was convicted in August 2015 in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don to 20 years, and Koltschenko to ten years in prison. Afanasyev and Tschirnij had previously received seven years in prison. The indictment against Koltschenko and staff of the Russian Federation was based mainly on statements of Tschirnij and Afanasiev. Both refused but, in the process against Koltschenko and staff of the Russian Federation testify. Afanasyev explained that he had made his previous statements under torture.
At the beginning of 2016, the staff of the Russian Federation was sent to Yakutia and from there to a penal colony in Labytnangi. The city is situated at the height of the polar circle. Koltschenko reports in February of 2016, according to the media in a high-security custody in Chelyabinsk in the Urals.
Staff of the Russian Federation denied any guilt and said that he had been tortured to force him to testify against the leaders of the Maidan movement. “The Maidan is the most important thing I’ve done in my life. But that does not mean that I am a Radical’am,” he said prior to the Russian court.
“I’m not a Terrorist”
In connection with the escape of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to Russia with their own hands said: “We have chased away our criminal President and Your country, the Crimea is occupied, I returned there and was there, as on the Maidan as a Volunteer.”
In the Crimea he had spoken with hundreds of people. “We have been thinking about what we can do next. But I have never called any actions that would have had to Sacrifice to be able to lead. I have not created a terrorist Organisation and had no Links to the ‘Right sector'” said staff of the Russian Federation.
Although staff of the Russian Federation itself had not asked for a pardon, has asked the Russian leadership however, on several occasions, to pardon staff of the Russian Federation. The last plea for mercy came from his mother and was also rejected. Sentsov is a Ukrainian citizen. According to the law on the annexation of Crimea to Russia, it applies to Moscow as a Russian citizen and is treated accordingly.