KYIV-OTTAWA-CHICAGO – A worldwide campaign to call for the release of Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov from a Russian penal colony spanned at least three continents with over three dozen cities taking part on June 1-3.
Led by a coalition of advocacy groups like Let My People Go and Save Oleg Sentsov, thousands took the streets to draw attention to the plight of the 41-year-old Crimea native who opposed Russia’s annexation of Crimea and is currently on a hunger strike while serving a 20-year prison sentence on what human right groups say are trumped-up charges of terrorism.