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Crimes against detainees and prisoners of warDocumented1 August 2018 · month known

Detention and trial of Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov

Simferopol · Crimea

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Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov was detained in Crimea in 2014, transferred to Russia, and sentenced to 20 years on fabricated terrorism charges; he undertook a 145-day hunger strike in 2018 demanding release of Ukrainian political prisoners, drawing international condemnation including from the European Parliament.

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