Ukraine: Release peace activist Yurii Sheliazhenko and drop all charges against him

EBCO, WRI, IFOR, Connection e.V., 17.08.2023

The European Bureau for Conscientious Objection (EBCO), War Resisters’ International (WRI), the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR) and Connection e.V. strongly condemn the fact that Yurii Sheliazhenko (Ukranian: Юрій Шеляженко), a well-known conscientious objector, pacifist, human rights defender and lawyer, Executive Secretary of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement (Ukranian: Український Рух Пацифістів), has been placed under partial house arrest by the Solomyanskyi District Court of Kyiv on 15 August 2023. More