![]() And I must bring your attention to the fact that Security Service of Ukraine is directly subordinated to president of Ukraine, according to law on Security Service. And both Office of the President and the Office of Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights, instead of considering the statement on the merits, as any democratic institutions, democratic leaders should do, give a reply, they just sent it to Security Service. ![]() I sent it to several officials, including president of Ukraine and the parliamentary commissioner for human rights. And this statement was adopted by meeting of Ukrainian Pacifist Movement on the International Day of Peace, 21st of September, last year. Also, this statement calls to protect the right of everyone to refuse to kill. ![]() It calls for prevention of human rights violations by armed forces. It calls for critical thinking about any images of enemy. And this statement indeed calls for ceasefire, peace talks. Then, there was “Peace Agenda for Ukraine and the World.” I prepared this statement based on scientific analysis of conflict escalation between Russia and Ukraine, from friendly divorce after dissolution of Soviet Union to Russian aggression and full-scale invasion. They considered it as a threat to mobilization for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. And they considered it as a threat to national security. He released some materials disclosed, and I must say that from this pile of papers, I see that, indeed, surveillance was started a year ago, and it was started when I published, as human rights defender, a legal aid document called human right to conscientious objection to military service. He asked the court to apply to me home arrest. YURII SHELIAZHENKO: During this interrogation, the investigator provided me a copy of request to the court. Well, he joined us Tuesday from his home, and I began by asking him about his interrogation, that he had just come from an hour before. Yurii Sheliazhenko has vowed to remain in Ukraine and continue his peace work from behind bars if he’s imprisoned. He’s appeared on Democracy Now! a number of times and has vocally opposed any escalation of the conflict through fighting or sanctions. Yurii is executive secretary of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement, member of the European Bureau for Conscientious Objection and World BEYOND War. The Ukrainian pacifist Yurii Sheliazhenko has been charged by the Ukrainian government with justifying Russian aggression, days after his apartment was raided and searched. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!,, The War and Peace Report.
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