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RFE/RL: Kremlin rejects Sentsov’s mother’s pardon request

By Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Published Aug. 15, 2018 at 11:50 am

People walk past a poster with a photo of Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov, taken by journalist Anton Naumlyuk, and displayed in a shop window in the center of Kyiv on July 5, 2018.

Photo by AFP

The Kremlin has rejected a request by the mother of Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov to pardon her son and release him from a Russian prison.

Ukraine’s Hromadske TV showed the Kremlin’s written answer to Lyudmyla Sentsova late on August 14 — revealing that her July 13 request for a pardon was rejected on the grounds that Russian law requires that “a convicted individual must ask for clemency personally.”