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"Idealists And Fearless Courage Of Idealism Drive The World"

"Idealists And Fearless Courage Of Idealism Drive The World"

Sviatlana Aleksievich and the Belarusian PEN center demanded the immediate release of Oleg Sentsov.

The Belarusian PEN center announced joining the company organized by the Pen Club (PEN International is a worldwide non-governmental human rights organization that unites professional writers, poets and journalists) in support of the Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov and demanded his immediate release.

"He saves the dignity of each of us, he proves how much one person can do," – the Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature Sviatlana Aleksievich said. – After his deed, none of us has the right to be in despair, let himself or herself give up. Everyone has to do something for the future, otherwise we will all be back in the past."

"Idealists and the fearless courage of idealism drive the world. The 90s, when we thought that freedom was a holiday, are left far behind. Now we know that freedom is a long way. Oleg, live! We need you," – Aleksievich called.

The native of Simferopol, Oleg Sentsov, who turned 42 on July 13, was detained on suspicion of terrorism in Russia after the annexation of Crimea by Russia in the spring of 2014. In August 2015, he was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in a strict regime colony. On May 14 this year, Sentsov went on a hunger strike, demanding to release Ukrainian political prisoners from Russian prisons. At the same time, he does not insist on his own release. On May 21, a petition addressing the Russian President Vladimir Putin, signed by more than 130 public and creative figures of Belarus, was sent to the Russian embassy in Minsk, with an appeal to intervene in the fate of Sentsov.

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