Archbishop of Simferopol and Crimea Clement again received a refusal from the Russian authorities to pardon the political prisoner Oleg Sentsov. This is reported by the Crimean Human Rights Group with reference to the response of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous region Commission on the personal appeal of Archbishop Clement to the President of the Russian Federation.
The document states that the procedure for clemency Ukrainian Oleg Sentsov political prisoner has to apply to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a corresponding request in writing and send it to the administration of the correctional institution in which it is located. Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, who was arrested as early as May 2014, declared a hunger strike on May 14, 2018, to release all Ukrainians.
