“It’s doesn’t matter when you die, but how and for what.” Sentsov’s address at Sakharov Prize ceremony
On 12 December 2018, the Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov was awarded the EU Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. He was not there to receive it, as he is serving a 20-year sentence in...
Oleg Sentsov won the Sakharov prize. Here are his most inspiring quotes
Sentsov was arrested by the Russian FSB on 11 May 2014, shortly after the Russian occupation of Crimea. Together with three other Ukrainians, Oleksandr Kolchenko, Henadiy Afanasiev, and Oleksiy Chirniy he was illegally transferred to Russia and is being...
Ukrainian filmmaker on hunger strike for 70 Ukrainian hostages asks G7 to help them all
Republished from Euromaidan Press Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who on 14 May announced a hunger strike until Russia releases all Ukrainian political prisoners it is holding, has written a letter to the G7 leaders asking for...
Here’s what the youngest prisoner of the Kremlin wants you to know
If you were a 19-year old lad held in Russian jail for no crime save for being a representative of your own nation, what would you wish? For the first time in four months, the...
Crimean Tatar leader Umerov receives Prize of Platform of European Memory and Conscience
Ilmi Umerov, Deputy head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, was awarded the Prize of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience-2017. The ceremony took place on November 8, during the platform conference “100 Years...
“This system can punish and torture people in the most perverse ways”: filmmaker Sentsov’s letter from Russian jail
The Russian journalist and human rights defender Zoya Svetova has received a letter from Oleg Sentsov, the Ukrainian film director and writer who was sentenced to 20 years in Russian jail for opposing the illegal...
“It’s Russia which broke the law” – last word of Crimean journalist prosecuted for opposing illegal landgrab
Your Honor! Respected Court! All the participants in the trial are witnesses to the fact that I was extremely frank here, spoke honestly and sincerely, the same way as I had written my books and...
“The highest value is the person with a sense of dignity”: letter of activist jailed for Ukrainian flag in Crimea
The Crimean farmer Volodymyr Baluch, sentenced by a Russian occupational court to three years and seven months in colony for the demonstration of his active pro-Ukrainian position, wrote a letter to Ukrainians who do not...
“I am destined to accept this verdict for the whole Crimean Tatar people” – last word of Crimean Tatar leader in political trial
The last word of Akhtem Chiygoz, the deputy head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, in the so-called Supreme Court of the occupied Crimea, was published by his lawyer Nikolai Polozov. The trial against...
“If people forget about freedom, dignity, honor, the world will cease to exist” – man sentenced for Ukrainian flag in occupied Crimea
I won’t say anything now for the court. I’ll say it for the people, not only for those present here now, but also for those outside this building. To begin with, there is actually no...