The International Committee of the Fourth International calls for a global campaign to demand the immediate release of Bogdan Syrotiuk from prison. The 25-year-old leader of the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists (the YGBL) was arrested by the state security .
The fraudulent charge of treason brought against Syrotiuk is aimed at intimidating and suppressing growing opposition among Ukrainian workers and youth to the imperialist-backed Zelensky regime and the escalating war against Russia.
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The ongoing exemptions granted to Kiev from following basic human and democratic rights are further proof that Ukraine is de facto a police state in which dissent is suppressed with dictatorial measures.
Ukraine is becoming more and more like a giant prison for its own trapped and disenfranchised population. Now, the authorities even seek to force those back inside who had managed to escape it.