Afanasyev: I broke my chains when I retracted my testimony against Oleg Sentsov
11.01.2016
Gennady Afanasyev, one of the four Crimean political prisoners held in Russia for a non-existent ‘terrorist plot’,, dates his personal liberation from July 31, 2015. On that day, he stood up at the trial of Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov and civic activist Oleksandr Kolchenko, and stated that he did not know the men and that all previous testimony against them had been tortured out of him.