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Ukrinform: EU again calls on Russia to release Oleg Sentsov

By UkrInform.
Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov at the "White Bear" colony in Russia's Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug on August 9, 2018. The 42-year-old Sentsov is serving a 20-year sentence in the far north of Russia after being convicted three years ago of arson attacks in his native Crimea following its annexation by Moscow.
Photo by Russia's High Commissioner for Human Rights

The European Union has once again called on Russia to immediately release Ukrainian political prisoner Oleg Sentsov.

“EU calls on Russia to immediately and unconditionally release Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov, on hunger strike for more than 100 days in protest against incarceration of Ukrainian political prisoners by Russia,” the EU Permanent Representation to the OSCE posted on Twitter.

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