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RFE/RL: Jailed Ukrainian filmmaker Sentsov starts hunger strike in Russian prison

By Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov reacts inside a defendants' cage as he listens to the verdict at a military court in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don on August 25, 2015.
Photo by AFP

Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov, who opposed Moscow’s takeover of Crimea and is now in prison in Russia, has started a hunger strike to demand the release of all Ukrainian nationals held in Russian penitentiaries.

In a handwritten letter that he gave to his lawyer, Dmitry Dinze, Sentsov said he started the hunger strike on May 14.

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