Halya Coynash: Russia rejects appeal against Ukrainian filmmaker Sentsov’s 20-year sentence
Activists burn flares, shout and carry a banner reading \"Freedom for the Crimean prisoners!\" in Moscow, on May 29, 2016, during a protest in support of Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and Ukrainian political activist Alexander Kolchenko.
Russia's Supreme Court has refused to even consider the cassation appeal lodged against the sentences passed on world-renowned filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and civic activist Oleksandr Kolchenko. The move was predictable, yet still profoundly disturbing given the lack of any grounds for the charges and "Stalinist" nature of the trial.
