page_title: Oleg Sentsov
section_title: Release
hierarchical_section_title: Oleg Sentsov / Sentsov affair / Release
caption_attribution_description: Українська: Oleh Sentsov return
context_page_description: Oleg Gennadyevich Sentsov is a Ukrainian filmmaker, writer and activist from Crimea. As a filmmaker he shot his film in 2011 Gamer. Following the Russian annexation of Crimea he was arrested in Crimea in May 2014 and sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment by a Russian court in August 2015 on charges of plotting terrorism acts. The conviction was described as fabricated by Amnesty International and others. He was awarded the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize in 2018. On 7 September 2019 he was released in a prisoner swap.
context_section_description: On 7 September 2019, in a prisoner swap with Ukraine, Russia released Oleg Sentsov and same day he returned to Kyiv where he – and other returning prisoners – was welcomed by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and where Sentsov reunited with his family.
  The swap and release of prisoners was welcomed by American, French and German leaders and leaders of international organizations such as NATO, OSCE and regional (European Parliament).
caption: Return of Oleg Sentsov to Ukraine
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