Call for Legal Clarity on Article 436

Attention! I am addressing all civic activists,

human rights defenders

and thought leaders whom the SBU has not yet come for with

charges under Article 436.

Every day, every day, there are more and more of us convicted under

this article. And it is not about justifying Russian

aggression, but about the fact that

now any inconvenient opinion can be construed as justifying Russian

aggression, any inconvenient statement on

social media.

I strongly urge you to call on your audience to sign the petition that I

personally prepared with the participation of human rights defenders and submitted

to the government portal concerning clarification and the definition

of specific, clear terms for charges under Article 436.

Today, there are already nearly two thousand of us convicted under this article,

and only a few of us supported

the Russian Federation, only a few.

We must resist such arbitrariness, but

remain within the bounds of the law.

Therefore, I demand, I demand of the Ministry of Justice, I

demand of the Cabinet of Ministers, I demand of Ukraine's members of parliament

to take

measures to clarify the terms, each

term in Article 436, uh, of the Criminal Code

of Ukraine, so that people clearly understand which actions

fall under, uh, the scope of this article.

And when you say, that you are dissatisfied with Zelenskyy's corruption,

this cannot

be construed by any expert, any prosecutor or

judge as justification for Russian aggression, because this is a sure

path to

repression.