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On the evening of January 31, activists from Dnipro seize the building of the Regional Philharmonic Hall where the 10th Documentary Film Festival "The International Film Assembly on the Dnipro-2019" opened and opened asked the organizers not to use the festival to promote the ideology of the "Russian world".
This event is held with the blessing of the local diocese leader of the UOC Irynei MP and with the support of one of the deputies from Verkhovna Rada. Ovnoyi Council, reports "Radio Liberty".
reported that picket participants held posters with slogans "We demand a declaration of the festival to the Russian authorities to release Ukrainian political prisoners", "Warsaw Film Festival began with a rally at the beginning of the year. support of Oleg Sentsov. Dear artists, who are you? "," At the Cannes Film Festival, called for the release of Sentsov.
Piquet participants said they wanted to remind the international community of filmmakers of Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, "hostage to the Kremlin" for nearly five years, and the captives of Ukrainian sailors.
" It is known that the previous festivals were pro-Russian in character and conveyed the propaganda of the" Russian world. "We can not allow the promotion of the" Russian world "in our country. hui, based on the fact that it is an international festival, is to remind our political prisoners.Oleg Sentsov is a colleague of the filmmakers who came here " – said the organizer of the action Lyudmila Shamray
At the same time, one of the organizers of the festival priest of the UOC (MP) Igor Sobko commenting on the picketing, that " any person has the right to express his opinion" He also assured that he had watched in person all the films presented at the festival.
According to Radio Liberty , the tenth documentary festival "International Film Assembly on Dnipro-2019" will last three days r Dnipro River More than 20 filmmakers from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Serbia, Georgia and Armenia have been announced in the program. In the program of the festival on one of the films ("The point of support of Mykola Donenko", directed by Olena Sergeeva), the producer-country bears the mention "Crimea".
Reminder The director of Oleg Sentsov arrested the Russian intelligence services in annexed Crimea in May 2014 for organizing terrorist attacks. on the peninsula. On August 25, 2015, the military court of the North Caucasus Military District of the Russian Federation declared him guilty of organizing a terrorist group and sentenced the strict regime prison to 20 years.
On May 14, 2018, Sentsov declared an endless hunger strike calling for the release of all Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia. 19659012] Czech personalities, Russian writers and academics, Russian school directors and academics, PACE, PEN International, Embassy of the United States of America in Ukraine, the European Union, the OSCE, Amnesty International, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Great Britain and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed their support and request for release. Sejm of Poland, G-7 Ambassadors, Czech Senators, Human Rights Watch, Government of Canada, Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, etc.
On October 5, Sentsov wrote an open letter to end the October 6 hunger strike due to the threat of forced feeding. He was hungry for the obligation to release all political prisoners from the Kremlin for 145 days.
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