Sentsova and Kolchenko are transferred to the colony

The Crimean prisoners of Oleg Sentsov and Alexander Kolchenko, sentenced, respectively, to 20 and 10 years of strict regime in a fabricated case of terrorism, were sent from the Rostov pre -trial detention center to the stage. This was reported by Saint Sentsova Natalya Kaplan.

“The stage began. Oleg Sentsov is being taken to Irkutsk, Sasha Kolchenko in Chelyabinsk,” Kaplan wrote. The prisoners left the pre -trial detention center on Thursday, but she only found out about it now.

The lawyer Kolchenko Svetlana Sidorkina clarified the Mediazone that her client is now on a shipment in Voronezh, and Sentsov in Samara.

The verdict Sentsov and Kolchenko sentenced the collegium of the North Caucasus District Military Court as part of Sergey Mikhaylyuk (presiding judge), Vyacheslav Korsakov and Eduard Korobenko (

The 39 -year -old film director and activist of Avtomaidan Sentsov was found guilty under Part 1 of Article 205.4 (organization of the terrorist community), paragraph “A” Part 2 of Article 205 (a terrorist attack committed by an organized group), part 1 of Article 30 - paragraph 2 of Article 205 (preparation for the organized group) and part 3 of Article 222 (illegal turnover of weapons and explosives, weapons and explosives, weapons and explosives, weapons and explosives, weapons and explosives. Performed by an organized group).

The college announced proven that Sentsov led the sabotage and terrorist group of the "Right Sector", which is assigned the arson of the headquarters of the "Russian community of Crimea" and "United Russia" in Simferopol, as well as the preparation of the explosion in the Crimean capital at the monument to Lenin.

Sentsov himself did not admit his guilt.

The 25-year-old left activist Kolchenko was declared guilty under Part 2 of Article 205.4 (participation in the terrorist community) and paragraph "A" of part 2 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code. He was charged with arson of the Simferopol headquarters of United Russia. Kolchenko confirmed the participation in this action, but categorically did not agree with the qualification of it as a terrorist attack, and also rejected the prosecution under article 205.4.

On November 24, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court left the verdict Sentsov and Kolchenko unchanged .

The leading European filmmakers and the Russian cinema union performed in defense of the Crimean prisoners. Promotions in support of Sentsov were held in Cannes and other international film festivals.

On September 25, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko awarded Sentsov and Kolchenko Orders "For Courage" I degree .

On January 15, the head of the Center for the Liberation of Ukrainian prisoners, Vladimir Ruban, said that Moscow agreed to the exchange of Sentsov and Kolchenko to the special forces of the Russian GRU - captain Evgeny Erofeev and Sergeant Alexander Alexandrov. "The scheme of the main exchange cannot be applied until there will be a sentence to Aleksandrov and Erofeev. Then it will already be an exchange in accordance with the parties - they will serve the sentence in their homeland. Under some guarantees, diplomats will be exchanged not hostages, not prisoners of war, but convicted, and each will go to their country, and there must be a pardon," Ruban explained.