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UNIAN: Ukraine’s Ombudswoman arrives in Russia, is denied access to Sentsov

By UNIAN.

Published June 15, 2018 at 2:31 pm

People hold placards with an appeal to boycott the Russia World Cup 2018 football tournament in front of the Russian Embassy in Kiev on June 14, 2018, during a rally to demand the release Oleg Sentsov and other Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia. Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence in Russia, will have spent a month on hunger strike in jail demanding that Russia release his fellow Ukrainians who he says are being held as political prisoners. To draw Western attention to Moscow's role in the four-year conflict in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian artist Andriy Yermolenko made a series of graphic drawings that have become popular on Facebook.

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Ukraine Parliament’s Ombudswoman Liudmyla Denysova says she is being denied access to the illegally convicted Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov after she arrived in the colony located in Labytnangi (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area), Russia.

“I met with the colony chief and head of the Penitentiary Department of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area, who told me that I cannot visit Oleh Sentsov under any circumstances,” she said in a video posted on Facebook.