Ukrainian journalist faces 15 years in jail after calls to boycott the draft [View all]

[rogerashton]

A court in the western Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk has ordered the arrest of a local freelance journalist on charges of espionage and high treason after he published a video on YouTube calling on Ukrainian citizens to boycott the mobilisation of Ukrainian men to fight a ‘fratricidal war’ in Ukraine’s east.

Kotsaba argues that the mobilisation campaign – which is currently in its fourth stage – is unlawful since a state of war has never been officially declared in the country. The Ukrainian authorities have officially designated the military action in the east an ‘anti-terrorist operation.’

https://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/zoya-kravchuk/ukrainian-journalist-faces-15-years-in-jail-after-calls-to-boycott-draft

Calling for draft evasion -- a crime, presumably -- would get you arrested in most countries. Who knows whether he is right about the Ukrainian conscription being illegal? I for one don't know.