Ukrianian director Oleh Sentsov, who was unlawfully convicted in Russia for 20 years, said he was being transferred from Irkutsk to Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Sentsov wrote this in a letter to human rights defender Zoya Svetova, as Open Russia reports.
“I am okay. On my way. They abruptly took me from Yakutia to Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. And there is just one place to serve a sentence – infamous Kharp (there’s a special regime correctional colony for those sentenced to life imprisonment). What it was like there, and what it is like now, you know better than me, I think. I don’t see anything good about this business trip. Even more so, after being through Irkutsk and Omsk prisons, I have an understanding about how bad it can be, and not only from stories.
