Filmmaker and writer Setnsov was found guilty in founding a terrorist group, organising two terrorist acts in the Crimea and preparing for two more, as well as illegal usage of guns and explosives

The pair were taken to a police station in Yakutsk on suspicion of organising an illegal public protest close to the penal colony where Sentsov is held.

They held a large sign saying in English: 'Free Sentsov'.

Alekhina said on her Facebook page: 'Yakutsk, Russia's Republic of Sakha, a bridge across the Lake of Saysary. The penal colony No. 1, where Oleg Sentsov is held, is twenty minutes, seven and a half kilometres from here.

'We used a linen canvas and pink spray paint to make a banner and placed it on the bridge so that the passers-by and residents of houses across the street could see it.'



Oleg Sentsov and - below - Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Maria Alekhina

Sentsov and Crimean activist Oleksandr Kolchenko were detained by Russian special services in Crimea in May 2014 on charges of "plotting terrorist attacks".

They were sentenced respectively to 20 years and 10 years imprisonment.

Filmmaker and writer Setnsov was found guilty in founding a terrorist group, organising two terrorist acts in the Crimea and preparing for two more, as well as illegal usage of guns and explosives.

TV Rain reported that Oleg Sentsov had complained on torture in jail. He also claimed to have undergone 'a trial of occupants' which 'genuinely cannot be fair'.





Maria Alekhina and Olga Borisova (pictured) held for stunt and waiting for trial in Yakutsk

Alekhina, 29, was one of three members of punk protest group Pussy Riot convicted in 2012 of 'hooliganism motivated by religious hatred' for a protest in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.

She was sentenced to two years' imprisonment.

Also convicted were Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 27, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 34.