The presidential Council on human rights (HRC) received a collective appeal from the public organization " Kinosoo ", signed by over three hundred artists, with the application to test the message of the convicted Ukrainian Director Oleg Sentsov about the use of torture, is notified on the Internet office of the HRC on the first day of the week.

last week, the North-Caucasian district military court has pronounced a sentence Sentsov to 20 years in prison for organizing terrorist acts in the Crimea, the second accused, Alexander Kolchenko, sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment. Their guilt, they do not recognize. Two other defendant in this case is Alex and He is Gennady Afanasiev already received 7 years of imprisonment.

"We ask you to pay necessary attention to the case of Oleg Sentsov and apply all the means at your disposal to ensure his right to objective and lawful proceedings and the court. Please initiate proceedings on the fact of messages Sentsov and Afanasyeva are reported to them torture and cases of "knocking out" the necessary corollary of the evidence, " said the statement, published on the Internet office of the HRC on the first day of the week.

By assumption of the investigation, Sentsov created in Crimea terrorist Commonwealth, was a structural subdivision banned in Russia as extremist movement " Right sector ", for the release of the Peninsula from Russia. According to the SC, the defendants from April to may 2014 was set on fire in Simferopol offices of the public organization "Russian community of Crimea" and the local branch of the party " United Russia ". The defendants were also charged with the attempted organization may 9, 2014 the explosion of the monument to Lenin in Simferopol.

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