Members of the Russian PEN Centre has asked Putin to pardon. – RBC

More than 80 members of the Russian PEN-Centre, uniting Russian writers, poets and journalists have signed an appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to pardon the Ukrainian Director Oleg Sentsov, this is with reference to the available edition of the message writes Colta.

“We ask You, Mr. President, to apply to Oleg Sentsov norm of the law allowing the President to decide on pardon without an admission of guilt on their part”, — quotes the edition of the text of the appeal of culture. The authors of the message also called the sentence Sentsov “deepest nespravedlivost”.

“Today Sentsov is located in the Yakut colony, his friends and colleagues say that the connection with him,” reads the letter. Members of the Russian PEN Center also said that a convicted Ukrainian Director “refuses to meetings and not responding to letters”. “This indicates a very dangerous psychological condition, evidence of severe moral (and maybe physical) sufferings,” said the writers.

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“Please use all available resources and mechanisms for the speedy release of our colleague Oleg Sentsov,” — said in the appeal to Putin.

a petition signed by journalist Sergei Parkhomenko, writer Maya Kucharski, poets Mikhail Aizenberg, Lev Rubinstein and others.

Later, the Agency “Interfax” in the press service of the Russian PEN center, said that officially, the organization wrote a letter to the President. “The Executive Committee and President of the PEN center not involved in this”, — said the representatives of PEN center, adding that it was not their initiative. “We have a group of “liberal” opposition, with us trying to interfere and run our own line,” is also told in the organization. “They are members of the Center, but accept their own statements, collect signatures among like-minded people,” — said the press service, noting that such collection of signatures “is not the first time”.

the Ukrainian Director Oleg Sentsov was convicted by the North Caucasus district military court in Rostov-na-Donu on August 25, 2015. He was convicted of preparation for bombings and arson in Simferopol. Along with his alleged accomplice Alexander Kolchenko, who received ten years in prison, Sentsov was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

In early December, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the situation with Sentsov should understand the judicial system. He also noted that “no one [Sentsov] is not condemned for his views, for his position”. According to Putin “the condemnation occurred due to its intention to take actions which by law were in fact terrorist in nature and which could lead to serious consequences for our citizens.”