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The Hollywood Reporter: Support growing for jailed Sentsov on hunger strike in Russia

Published June 18, 2018. Updated June 18 at 10:42 am

People hold posters with portraits of Oleg Sentsov at the Kyiv’s main Maidan Nezalezhnosti Square on June 2 to show their support for the Crimean filmmaker, imprisoned after a Kremlin show trial on terrorism charges. Sentsov, a fierce of Russia's annexation of Crimea, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2015. He is now on a hunger strike.

The Toronto film festival and the Canadian city’s Luminato arts event are the latest to issue statements calling for the release of Oleg Sentsov.

The Toronto International Film Festival and the city’s Luminato arts festival have issued a joint statement calling for the release of jailed Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, who on June 18 entered his 36th day of hunger strike in a Russian prison.