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Yurii Sheliakhenko

URGENT statement about the unlawful detention and deprivation of liberty of Yurii Sheliazhenko

The undersigned organisations are shocked by the detention and deprivation of liberty of human rights defender Yurii Sheliazhenko, today March 19th, by the Ukrainian authorities in Kyiv. This is just weeks after a joint call to the authorities to withdraw from…

Ukraine: Stop the criminalization of peace and human rights speech  and the prosecution of Yurii Sheliazhenko,  Executive Secretary of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement

The undersigned organizations express their deep disappointment and grave concerns about the continuing harassment of peace activists and conscientious objectors, including the obviously arbitrary prosecution of Yurii Sheliazhenko, Executive Secretary of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement and EBCO Board member, whose…

“Conflicts should be resolved through negotiations, not war.”

The following interview was conducted by Reiner Braun, Executive Director of the International Peace Bureau, 1910 Nobel Prize winning organization over e-mail in recent days with Oleg Bodrov and Yurii Sheliakhenko, two peace activists from Russia and Ukraine respectively. Can…