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Oleg Sentsov, a 42-year-old Ukrainian film director and outspoken critic of the Russian occupation of Crimea was arrested in May, 2014, and sentenced to twenty years in a high-security facility on charges of terrorism.

Sentsov commenced a hunger strike on 14 May 2018 for an indefinite period of time demanding the release of all Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia.

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