European cultural figures called for the release of Oleg Sentsov

More than a hundred writers, journalists, philosophers, filmmakers and theater figures from France and other European countries signed an appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to free Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, who was serving a 20-year term in Russia.

Among those who put the first signatures under the appeal placed on Change.org , directors Bertran Tavernier, Michelle Khazanavichus, Arno Deplehen, Sergey Loznitsa and Kshishtof Varlikovsky, writers Emmanuel Carrer, Pascal Bryutner, Anni Erno and Sofia Andrukhovich, poet Sergei Zhadan, journalist Rafael Gluxmann, philosophers Bruno Latur, Edgar Moren, Maurizio Ferraris and the glory of Liizhek.

On November 20, at the Paris Theater “Odeon”, an evening was held in support of the appeal, which was performed by the French Ambassador for Human Rights by Francois Croquet, which said that Oleg Sentsov’s accusation was built on fabricated evidence and false testimonies. “On the eve of the likely re -election of Vladimir Putin and the Great Football Festival, the time has come to give him freedom,” Libération quotes the Croquet quoted.

In May 2014, Oleg Sentsov was detained by the FSB in Crimea, in August 2015 he was found guilty of organizing a terrorist community and convicted by the North Caucasus District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don to 20 years of strict regime colony. In November, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation left the verdict without change.

In February 2016, Oleg Sentsov was transferred to Chelyabinsk, at the end of March they transferred to a colony near Yakutsk, in October 2017-to a colony in the city of Labytnangi of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.

The human rights center "Memorial" recognized Oleg Sentsov as political prisoner. In support of the director, Russian and foreign cultural figures and human rights activists have repeatedly performed, they consider the accusations against him far -fetched and politically motivated.