Picture by Lauren Hurley / No 10 Downing Street
Stop the War Coalition calls for the immediate release of 27-year-old Bogdan Syrotiuk, the Ukrainian anti-war activist sentenced to 15 years imprisonment on charges of “high treason” under martial law for opposing NATO and for calling for solidarity with Ukrainian and Russian workers. The Ukrainian courts accuse Syrotiuk of collaborating with a “foreign organization” to spread “pro-Russian disinformation”.
We demand the British government and PM Andy Burnham, who now enjoys a close relationship with the Ukrainian regime and its president Volodymyr Zelensky, calls for Bogdan’s release.
The same charge of support for the Russian government has been levelled against all opponents of NATO’s proxy war in Ukraine, including Stop the War. Bogdan’s persecution is part of a European-wide crackdown on protest against genocide and imperialist violence and the prime minister must use his influence to call for it to end.
Watch Igor Romanchuk, Post-Soviet Left, Ukraine and Aleksei Sakhnin, Peace from Below, Russia, speaking at the International Anti-War conference in London in June, calling for an end to Britain and Europe providing ever more arms to keep the war in Ukraine going, and for Bogdan’s release.
Sign our petition calling on the prime minister to intervene in Bogdan’s case and email him here: andy.burnham.mp@parliament.uk
Send statements demanding the overturning of the verdict and Bogdan’s immediate release to the Pervomaisk City District Court at inbox@pm.mk.court.gov.ua and the Nikolaev Court of Appeal at inbox@mka.court.gov.ua