Paul
Goble
Staunton, March 22 – The gross
miscarriage of justice in the case of Nadiya Savchenko has sparked outrage
among people of good will around the world, but it would be a tragedy if this
welcome focus on her case failed to generate international support for the 27 other
Ukrainians Russian officials have taken hostage and against whom they have fabricated
cases.
As Crimea’s QHA news agency notes
today, Russian officials in occupied Crimea and elsewhere have used fabricated
cases as a way of intimidating the population. And it says that at present
there are 28 others who have been subject to such repression for their
political convictions (qha.com.ua/ru/politika/28-zalojnikov-kremlya-otchet-dokument/157033/).
Savchenko is one of them, but
thankfully her case is well known. The other 27 are much less so, and QHA
points to the 74-page report about them prepared earlier this year by the joint
efforts of Euromaidan SOS, the Center for Civic Freedoms, and the Open Dialogue
Foundation about 27 Ukrainians and one Estonian who have been subjected to such
actions.
Their report is available at ccl.org.ua/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/28Hostages_CCL_MF_Web-Map.pdf.
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