The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has demanded access to Ukrainian film director Oleh Sentsov, who has been on hunger strike in a Russian prison for more than four months.
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RFE/RL: Ukraine demands access to imprisoned film director Sentsov
(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on Sept. 29, shows Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov's dramatic weightloss after 139 days of hunger strike : Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov (L) is seen inside the defendant's cage in a military courtroom during the second hearing in the southwestern city of Rostov-on-Don on July 27, 2015 and a handout photo released by the Federal Penitentiary Service in Russia's Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug on Sept. 29, of Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov undergoing medical examination at a state hospital in Labytnangi. Russia's prison service released on Sept. 29, a rare photograph of Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov on day 139 of his hunger strike in an Arctic colony where he is serving 20 years on terror charges. The photograph showed a medic listening to Sentsov's chest. The 42-year-old Kremlin-opponent -- who is 1.9 meters tall -- looked visibly gaunt, thinner and considerably older.
