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On June 28, the Voice of America’s Russian service reported that Ukraine’s Human Rights Ombudswoman Ludmila Denisova was not allowed to see Ukrainian prisoner and filmmaker Oleh Sentsov at the prison in Russia where he is being held. Sentsov has been on a hunger strike for 46 days and, according to his lawyer, has been experiencing heart and kidney problems, with prison doctors warning that a health crisis was “imminent.”

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