Ukrainian Law Blog
Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere
Saturday, June 16, 2018
Full list of Members of the European Parliament who voted against the resolution on political prisoners in Russia
On 14 June this year, the European Parliament adopted a
resolution
that, in particular, demanded “that the Russian authorities immediately and unconditionally release Oleg Sentsov and all other illegally detained Ukrainian citizens in Russia and on the Crimean peninsula”.
Oleg Sentsov is a Ukrainian
film maker
who lived in Crimea. He stayed there after Russia had annexed the Crimean peninsula; shortly after the annexation, Sentsov was arrested, forcibly “granted” a Russian citizenship, falsely charged with terrorist activities and sentenced to 20 years.
READ MORE HERE
No comments:
Post a Comment
Newer Post
Older Post
Home
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment