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Back Home: Film screening and HRHN discussion on Crimea

As part of One World Film Festival in Brussels, members of the Human Rights House Kiev will take part in a panel discussion on the human rights situation in Crimea. HRHN will live tweet the discussion.

Panelists:
Mariya Tomak, Civic activist and journalist, Centre for Civil Liberties, Ukraine; Tetyana Pechonchyk, Human rights defender, head of board at Human Rights Information Centre, Ukraine.
Moderator:
Andrew Rettman, EU Observer.

This will follow the screening of Back Home, a documentary covering filmmaker Inna Denisova’s return to her native region on the Crimean peninsula after the annexation by Russia. The film also features footage from the trial of imprisoned director and activist Oleg Sentsov.

Published: April 20, 2016

When: Wednesday, 20. April 2016 19.00
Where: Brussels, Permanent Representation of the Czech Republic to the EU, 15, rue Caroly, 1050
Host: One World Film Festival (People in Need), in cooperation with the Human Rights House Network
More info: www.oneworld.cz/2016/films-a-z/30951-navrat-domu

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