A YEAR AFTER: MAIN VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN CRIMEA PART 4 Pictured: Oleg Sentsov and Aleksandr Kolchenko On several occasions, Sentsov’s attorney claimed Sentsov was subjected to torture in Lefortovo detention facility to coerce confession, and tortured in the Simferopol FSB o7 ce. After Oleg Sentsov, a Ukrainian citizen, was put in custody in Lefortovo, the court extended his detention several times. The most recent judgment of Lefortovo Dis- trict Court dated December 26, 2014, was to prolong Sentsov’s detention till April 11, 2015. On February 2, 2015, Oleg Sentsov was charged with ‘illegal acquisition, transfer, sale, storage, transportation, or possession of weapons, explosive materials, or ex- plosive devices under article 222, part 3 of the RF Criminal Code. The respective judgment was delivered to him by the detention o7 cers at Lefortovo, where he is kept since May 2014 under terrorism charges. Kolchenko’s detention was also extended by the court several times. The most recent judgment was made on December 25, 2014, prolonging the detention to April 16, 2015. The investigator stated that the investigation period for this case was extended till April 28, 2015. Besides, new parties continue to appear in Sentsov’s case, most of whom are Ukrain- ian activists. The petitions from Major of Justice Artem Burdin, Major Case Investi- gator of the FSB Investigation Directorate, indicate other Ukrainian citizens: E.N. As- anov, H.S. Afanasiev, N.S. Borkin, I.V. Zuikov, A.A. Kolchenko, S.V. Tsyril, A.V. Chirnii, and others. Kolchenko, Chirnii, and Afanasiev have also been arrested and are de- tained in Moscow. 133

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