UkrInform: Freeland writes postcards to Sushchenko, Sentsov

By UkrInform.

Published July 4, 2019 at 11:21 am

Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov at the "White Bear" colony in Russia's Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug on August 9, 2018.The 42-year-old Sentsov is serving a 20-year sentence in the far north of Russia after being convicted three years ago of arson attacks in his native Crimea following its annexation by Moscow.

Photo by Russia's High Commissioner for Human Rights

Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland has written postcards to Ukrainian political prisoners Roman Sushchenko and Oleg Sentsov with words of support.

This is stated in a message posted by the Postcards for Prisoners: Ukrainian Political Prisoners Project on Facebook, according to an Ukrinform correspondent.