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UNIAN: Sentsov among 2018 Sakharov Prize finalists

By UNIAN.

Published Oct. 10, 2018 at 11:45 am

Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov looks on inside a defendants' cage during a hearing at a military court in the city of Rostov-on-Don on July 27, 2015.

Photo by AFP / Sergei Venyavsky

llegally convicted Ukrainian film director Oleh Sentsov, who is imprisoned in Russia, is among the finalists for the 2018 Sakharov Prize.

“The finalists for the 2018 Sakharov Prize are: Oleg Sentsov, 11 NGOs saving migrant lives across the Mediterranean Sea and Nasser Zefzafi,” the European Parliament announced on October 9, 2018.