CALL TO ACTION TO SUPPORT YURII SHELIAZHENKO
Dear everyone,
following last night communication we would like to kindly encourage actions to support Yurii.
We are still waiting for updates from Kiev but don’t want to wait any longer to take further actions. We’ll keep you posted as soon as we get additional news.
Firstly, we encourage sharing the urgent statement we issued last night. It’s available on websites and social media of «Connection e.V.», «War Resisters’ International» (WRI), «European Bureau for Conscientious Objection» (EBCO) and «International Fellowship of Reconciliation» (IFOR). Our Facebook page you can find here.
We have versions available in different languages and others work in progress: in English, in German, in Russian, in French, in Greek, in Italian, in Spanish, in Turkish, in Dutch.
If you have other language versions, please share.
HERE ARE SOME SUGGESTIONS TO TAKE ACTION TO SUPPORT YURII:
— contact and write to your (and others) local Embassies in Ukraine;
— contact and write to the Ukrainian Embassy in your country — here you can find their contacts;
— contact political representatives in your country and in regional and international institutions;
— contact the Kiev Police Department: police@kyiv.police.gov.ua, ph: +380 44 254 94 88;
— write to the Kiev Enlistment Office: pechersk_rvk@post.mil.gov.ua;
— contact the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs: +380 44 256 03 33;
— contact the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense: admou@post.mil.gov.ua;
— contact the Ukrainian Ombudsman: hotline@ombudsman.gov.ua, ph: +380 44 253 75 89;
— contact the State Bureau of Investigation: crime@dbr.gov.ua, ph: +380 44 300 27 07;
— inform the media;
— share on your social media, political networks, etc.
— share with your contacts and invite other organizations, agencies, and institutions to take action;
— support the «CO Alert» launched by «War Resisters’ International»;
— join «World BEYOND War» call for signatures.
You may use the graphic attached and the text — or just parts of it — from the URGENT STATEMENT for the actions mentioned above.
For your convenience you may use this suggested template to send out communications. We suggest writing in the subject line for email communications: UNLAWFUL DEPRIVATION OF YURII SHELIAZHENKO’S FREEDOM.
Please, share any possible public action or release you plan so that we can support visibility and increase the support to Yurii.
Thank you all for the precious collaboration!
Please, share widely this CALL TO ACTION TO SUPPORT YURII SHELIAZHENKO!
We’ll keep you posted.
Zaira Zafarana, international advocacy coordinator at «Connection e.V.»
«International of Conscientious Objectors» (Internationale der Kriegsdienstgegner*innen, IDK):
«IDK Demands Immediate Release of Ukrainian Conscientious Objector Yurii Sheliazhenko», more information on idk-info.net