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Yamal Peninsula: Dmitry Dinze and Oleg Health

yamal peninsula: Macron made several proposals, and Putin pledged to respond to them and to release information about the condition of Sentsov, who was on his 89th day without food Friday, according to The Chronicle Herald. Details of the proposals were not provided. Macron urged the Russian leader to find a humanitarian solution since Oleg Sentsov's health seems to be dangerously deteriorating, according to a statement from the president's Elysee Palace office. The filmmaker, an opponent of Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea, was given a 20-yaer prison sentence in 2015 for conspiracy to commit terrorism, a crime he denies. Sentsov's lawyer, Dmitry Dinze, said after visiting him Tuesday at a prison on the Yamal Peninsula in Siberia that Sentsov has anemia and a slow heartbeat. He says he and 64 other Ukrainians imprisoned in Russia are political prisoners and is demanding their release. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.