The United States, France, Britain, and 35 other countries have asked UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to raise the case of jailed film director Oleh Sentsov and dozens of other Ukrainian prisoners during his talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin next week.
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RFE/RL: 38 countries ask UN chief to intervene with Putin in Sentsov case
People hold placards with an appeal to boycott the Russia World Cup 2018 football tournament in front of the Russian Embassy in Kyiv on June 14, 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.
