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The European Parliament is scheduled to award imprisoned Ukrainian film director Oleh Sentsov with its 2018 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.

Sentsov’s cousin Natalya Kaplan and his lawyer, Dmitry Dinze, were expected to accept the prize in the filmmaker’s name at a ceremony in Strasbourg on December 12.

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