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Tell the Ukrainian Government to Drop Prosecution of Peace Activist Yurii Sheliazhenko
Yurii Sheliazhenko is a friend of the Columbus Free Press and has spoken at two of our salons. He lives in Ukraine and is a peace activist. Yurii has been formally charged by the Ukrainian government with the crime of justifying Russian aggression. The evidence is this statement which explicitly condemns Russian aggression.
To: Ukrainian Government
We call on you to drop any legal proceedings against Yurii Sheliazhenko, and to respect human rights, the right to conscientious objection, and the right to freedom of speech. The absurdity of prosecuting someone for justifying Russian warmaking on the basis of a statement in which he has explicitly condemned Russian warmaking, is matched by the absurdity of waging war in the name of freedom and democracy while engaging in this sort of harassment of citizens. We urge you to do better.
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