After more than five years of detention, and calls from international artists groups and governments, Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov was freed from a Russian prison today. In what has long been s…
After more than five years of detention, and calls from international artists groups and governments, Ukrainian filmmakerwas freed from a Russian prison today. In what has long been seen as an unjust situation, Sentsov was convicted in 2015 of plotting terrorist attacks and sentenced to 20 years after supporting the 2014 Euro Maidan protests and opposing Russia’s annexation of Crimea.
Sentsov was arrested by the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation at his home in May 2014 and brought to Moscow where he was detained awaiting trial for over a year. When the trial began in July 2015, the prosecution’s key witnessas “given under pressure and duress.” The next month, Sentsov was sentenced to 20 years.
Suzanne Nossel, PEN America’s CEO, said, “We are jubilant that Oleg is finally free to reunite with his beloved children and to speak his mind. The spurious case and draconian sentence imposed on Oleg are emblematic of the lengths to which despots will go to silence those who defy them, and the special cruelty they reserve for those who, through the power of writing and art can move others to resist as well.
, launched a call in support of Sentsov, with signatories including Todd Haynes, Lucas Guadagnino, William Friedkin, Michel Hazanavicius, François Ozon, Rithy Panh, Lynn Ramsay, Claire Denis and the Dardenne brothers.Throughout the past five years, the European Film Academy has also been active in raising public awareness. Festivals such as Venice, Warsaw and San Sebastian picked up the “empty chair” idea of including Sentsov on their juries to attract attention.
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