Johnny Depp lends his power to campaign hoping to free imprisoned Ukrainian filmmaker

Johnny Depp threw his star power behind another campaign as he expressed support for imprisoned Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov.

Posing for a mugshot, Depp wore a board hanging around his neck showing Sentsov’s sentence.  The photo was taken as part of a new campaign called ‘Imprisoned for Art’.

Co-founder and executive director of The Voice Project, Hunter Heaney,  said the campaign’s goals are to build awareness and raise money for the group, which works to support freedom of expression.

Depp had chosen to support filmmaker Sentsov, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit terror attacks by a Russian military court in 2015 and sentenced to 20 years in prison.