Ukrainian Editor Arrested and Jailed for the Crime of Speaking Freely

‘The Kiev Court of Appeals refused to change the sentence of the leader of the opposition Workers’ Party of Ukraine, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper “The Working Class”, People’s Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of III and IV convocations, Alexander Bondarchuk.

The politician and journalist was arrested on March 18 under paragraph 1, article 110 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine “Violation of territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine” for publishing of two articles in his newspaper that the SBU [secret police] considered a threat to the territorial integrity of Ukraine. To support the defendant came his fellow party members, leaders of PSPU (Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine), Natalia Vitrenko and Vladimir Marchenko, as well as activists of the Communist party, of which previously Bondarchuk was a member.’

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