Activists Stage Silent Protest In Poland For Jailed Filmmaker Sentsov
Rights activists staged a silent protest in Poland in support of Oleh Sentsov, the Ukrainian filmmaker who is on hunger strike in a prison in Russia where he's been in custody for more than four years.
The activists stood silently on September 10 as the Russian representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe gave opening remarks at a conference in Warsaw.
Many participants wore T-shirts or had stickers on their backs saying #SaveOlehSentsov.
A native of the Russia-annexed Crimea Peninsula, Sentsov was arrested in 2014 and a Russian court later sentenced him to 20 years in prison on terrorism-related charges.
Sentsov was a vocal opponent of Russia's annexation of the Black Sea region, and his supporters called his jailing politically motivated.
Based on reporting by AP and dpa
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Here's a video that doesn't have much to do with the current crisis, but it's bound to be of interest to Ukraine-watchers:
Jewish New Year Celebrations In Pilgrimage City Of Uman, Ukraine
Jewish pilgrims gathered in the Ukrainian city of Uman to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, on September 9. The city was was the final home of Reb Nachman, a Jewish spiritual leader who founded the Breslov Hasidic movement, and thousands of people come to visit his grave each year. The majority of the estimated 30,000 pilgrims were visiting from Israel.
Let's just say that a significant proportion of the Russia-watching twitterati have been very skeptical about this: