Russia's politically charged imprisonment of Crimean film director Oleh Sentsov has outraged critics as a perceived effort to suppress dissent on the Ukrainian peninsula following its forceful annexation by Moscow in 2014. One of the best known and most outspoken of opponents of Russia's action, Sentsov was charged almost immediately after the seizure with conspiring to commit terrorism and ultimately given a 20-year jail sentence.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: European filmmaker says Ukraine’s Sentsov ‘victim of vindictive system,
Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov looks out from a defendants' cage during a hearing at a military court in the city of Rostov-on-Don on July 21, 2015.
