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Protection and Asylum for Human Rights Defender Olga Karach

Urgent Action, 25.08.2023

Following the denial of political asylum by the Lithuanian authorities for the Belarusian peacebuilder and human rights defender Olga Karach (Belarusian: Вольха Карач), the international campaign #protection4olga has just been launched to demand protection and asylum for the director of the organisation Our House.

She has been fighting for human rights in Belarus for years, including the right to conscientious objection to military service, and is therefore persecuted and faces capital punishment in her country of origin, where she has been labelled a «terrorist» by the regime. More (in English and German)

As Urgent Action we have prepared a protest eMail to the Lithuanian government, which you can send via that form (in English and German).

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

Is Conscientious Objection Also Justified in Ukraine?

Frankfurter Rundschau, 14.08.2023

Athens/Frankfurt — «Conscientious objectors are also under the risk of being forcibly recruited, imprisoned and persecuted in Ukraine for refusing to take up arms», Alexia Tsouni, the president of the European Bureau for Conscientious Objection (EBCO), tells the Frankfurter Rundschau (FR) in an interview. More (in German)