UkrInform: Today marks fifth anniversary of Oleg Sentsov arrest

By UkrInform.

Published May 10, 2019. Updated May 10 at 10:55 am

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

Five years ago, May 10, 2014, Oleg Sentsov was arrested in Simferopol.

Oleg Sentsov is a Ukrainian film director, screenwriter and writer, civil society activist. Sentsov was awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought and the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine.