“A nail that won’t bend”: meet Oleg Sentsov
Date and time:
Saturday 16 November, 2019
10:00 - 12:00
Location:
The Ukrainian Club
154 Holland Park Ave
London
W11 4UH
In a bogus Kremlin trial, Oleg Sentsov had a twenty-year prison sentence dished out at him. He responded with dignity and defiance: “I would like to be a nail in the tyrant’s coffin. And that nail will not bend.” He has spent over five years in Russian prisons and endured many months of hunger strike. He returned home following a prisoners exchange and was hailed as a hero.
Ukrainian Institute London is delighted to host a meeting with him in London, where he is coming to receive a prestigious Sergei Magnitsky Award. This will be an excellent opportunity to celebrate Oleg’s unbreakable spirit and the efforts of many London-based activists who campaigned for his release.
Ukrainian Institute London and Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain are delighted to host this joint event.
The event will be held in Russian/Ukrainian.
FREE
Speaker
Oleg Sentsov
Oleg Sentsov is a Ukrainian director and writer from Crimea. When Russia annexed the peninsula, he was arrested and sentenced to 20 years in a gulag-style prison in Siberia on trumped-up charges and became the face of Ukrainian struggle against Russia. International filmmakers, human rights organizations and activists from across the world all fought for his release. On September 7 2019, he was set free as part of a prisoner exchange. He cannot return to Crimea, where his mother and two children lived until recently.
