Award-winning Ukrainian filmmaker and political prisoner Oleg Sentsov has been on hunger strike for 125 days in the Polar Bear Maximum Security Prison in the far north of Russia. His only demand throughout the strike has been that the Russian authorities release sixty-four other Ukrainian political prisoners, most of them, like Mr. Sentsov, from Crimea, which was illegally occupied by Russia in 2014.
In recent days, I have seen a lot of snide commentary from Russian nationals to the effect that Mr. Sentsov should give up his hunger strike, because it’s obviously not working.
In my opinion, what Mr. Sentsov, who was sentenced to twenty years in prison on trumped-up charges by a kangaroo military tribunal in Rostov-on-Don, does is up to him, don’t you think? I think he should get a free pass when it comes to what he does or doesn’t do after the Putin regime ruined his life while Russian society mostly stood by idly and silently once again.
Oleg Sentsov is a far braver man than most of us can hope to be. If we do not want to help him and refuse to show solidarity with him and his cause, the least we could do would be to refrain from writing and talking about him.
That would be the minimum of solidarity in this case. {TRR}
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This is an excellent article, I agree with every single point that you have made in it. I am going to reblog this article for you. If the people of Russia really wanted to be free themselves of this mass murderer Putin and weren’t such cowards they would drag this murderer out of the Kremlin themselves and hang him from a light pole in the street for all to see.That would be much better than cowardly slandering a person who obviously do have humane convictions that he is willing to die for.
Reblogged this on Truth Troubles.