Letters of protest

…we must condemn in the strongest possible terms the persecution of 27-year-old journalist Bogdan Syrotiuk, who was sentenced on August 10, 2026, by a Ukrainian court to 15 years in prison on charges of treason, essentially for six articles he wrote in which he called for solidarity between Ukrainian and Russian workers and youth against the war… If the Ukrainian government wants us to believe that it values democratic principles

How can one continue to defend Ukraine as a democracy when someone is sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment for expressing opinions that in no way jeopardize Ukrainian security? I have written a long monograph on the war crimes of OUN-UPA.

I thank God that I am a Canadian citizen, where there is no official cult of Holocaust perpetrators and ethnic cleansers and where I am allowed to express my opinion.

Stop the War Coalition calls for the immediate release of 27-year-old Bogdan Syrotiuk, the Ukrainian anti-war activist sentenced to 15 years imprisonment… on charges of ‘high treason’ under martial law for opposing NATO and for calling for solidarity with Ukrainian and Russian workers.

The Ukrainian courts accuse Syrotiuk of collaborating with a ‘foreign organization’ to spread ‘pro-Russian disinformation.’ The same charge of support for the Russian government has been levelled

The conviction and 15-year sentence of Bogdan Syrotiuk must be condemned by all socialists, anti-imperialists and those who fight the battle for truth and justice. We must fight for his release and mobilise support for him. He was convicted of High Treason for six articles he wrote for the World Socialist Web Site opposing the NATO-instigated war in Ukraine… Bogdan, as a rare and courageous socialist voice speaking out publicly,

As a law professor and a socialist, I strongly condemn the groundless conviction and 15-year sentence imposed by a Ukrainian court on August 10 on Bogdan Syrotiuk. Without any plausible evidence whatsoever, a 27-year-old socialist and leader of the Trotskyist Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists has been imprisoned for “high treason,” for calling for the international unity of Russian and Ukrainian workers against war.

I join with others around the world

I have been following the case of Bogdan Syrotiuk since his arrest in 2024, and would like to add my voice to the global protest against what was clearly a ‘show trial.’ Syrotiuk has been sentenced to 15 years for treason, and yet the evidence presented in this ‘trial’ is clearly political in nature and is in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights.

His ‘crime’ is that he

I, Professor Dr. Mario Kessler, historian in Berlin, hereby strongly protest the Pervomaisk court’s conviction of Mr. Bogdan Syrotiuk.

Mr. Syrotiuk is accused of acting on behalf of the Putin regime in Russia. In court, Mr. Syrotiuk pleaded not guilty. He stated that, as a Ukrainian socialist, he condemns the Russian invasion from its beginning. The World Socialist Web Site, which is actively campaigning for his release and for which

We write to ask you to vacate the 15-year sentence of Bogdan Syrotiuk. Bogdan was convicted for his political views, for six articles published on the World Socialist Web Site. These articles opposed the war, exposed the crimes of Ukrainian fascism, and called for the unity of Ukrainian, Russian and international workers.

The charge of “high treason under martial law” is a political fabrication. He was sentenced for a “thought

To the Ukrainian court: Bohdan Syrotiuk did nothing wrong by expressing opposition to the insane Russian-Ukrainian war. Many people around the world and in Russia agree that this war needs to end, and Syrotiuk is right to seek support for ending the war among the citizens of both countries.

It is difficult to know how widely the war is supported in Ukraine, but Syrotiuk’s views reflect those of many Ukrainians,

Is Ukraine a country where democratic rights exist, or is it devoid of same? Do citizens of this country have a right to express their opinions, or must they walk in lock step with those presently in authority? In short, are Ukrainians human beings or robots under the control of their puppeteers?

I write in support of Bogdan Syrotiuk, imprisoned for speaking the truth, as have countless others throughout history

It was with horror that I learned of the sentencing of the socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk to 15 years in prison by a Ukrainian court. Bogdan Syrotiuk was essentially convicted because of six articles he wrote for the World Socialist Website, in which he called for solidarity between Ukrainian and Russian workers and youth against the war.

Fifteen years in prison for daring to exercise his right to freedom of expression—a

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

I demand that the verdict of August 10, 2026 against Bogdan Syrotiuk be overturned and that he be released immediately and unconditionally.

The record of the case contains no act of treason: no espionage, no sabotage, no collaboration with any military force. The sole evidence presented against him consisted of his writings. Convicting a 27-year-old socialist for

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

I demand that the verdict of August 10, 2026 against Bogdan Syrotiuk be overturned and that he be released immediately and unconditionally.

The record of the case contains no act of treason: no espionage, no sabotage, no collaboration with any military force. The sole evidence presented against him consisted of his writings. Convicting a 27-year-old socialist for

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

I call on the court to overturn the verdict of August 10, 2026 against Bogdan Syrotiuk and to release him immediately.

His writings are political speech, protected by Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The trial was conducted under martial law, in a country where elections have been suspended and every left-wing party banned.

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

Bogdan Syrotiuk's conviction is not only contradicts the principles of democracy, freedom of thought and individuality that the Ukrainian people and state are fighting for against the tyrannical Kremlin regime, it terrifies the every and any citizen from diverse political perspectives from supporting the state, or worse, even the Ukrainian people in their struggle! Leaving them open

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

I demand that the verdict of August 10, 2026 against Bogdan Syrotiuk be overturned and that he be released immediately and unconditionally.

The record of the case contains no act of treason: no espionage, no sabotage, no collaboration with any military force. The sole evidence presented against him consisted of his writings. Convicting a 27-year-old socialist for

До Первомайського міського районного суду, з копією до Миколаївського апеляційного суду,

Я вимагаю скасувати вирок від 10 серпня 2026 року щодо Богдана Сиротяка та негайно й беззастережно звільнити його.

У матеріалах справи немає жодних доказів державної зради: ні шпигунства, ні диверсій, ні співпраці з будь-якими збройними силами. Єдиним доказом, представленим проти нього, були його твори. Засудження 27-річного соціаліста за шість статей порушує Європейську конвенцію з прав людини та найелементарніші демократичні

To the Pervomaisk City District Court and the Nikolaev Court of Appeal,

I am writing to you to demand both the immediate overturning of the completely and utterly fraudulent and criminal verdict of “treason” that the heroic and inspiring young socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk was convicted of in your court on August 10, 2016, and his immediate and unconditional release from the hellish prison that you’ve sent him to.

It is

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

I demand that the verdict of August 10, 2026 against Bogdan Syrotiuk be overturned and that he be released immediately and unconditionally.

The record of the case contains no act of treason: no espionage, no sabotage, no collaboration with any military force. The sole evidence presented against him consisted of his writings. Convicting a 27-year-old socialist for

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

I demand that the verdict of August 10, 2026 against Bogdan Syrotiuk be overturned and that he be released immediately and unconditionally.

The record of the case contains no act of treason: no espionage, no sabotage, no collaboration with any military force. The sole evidence presented against him consisted of his writings. Convicting a 27-year-old socialist for

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal, I read on the web about this case,& decided to write you as it's so serious , and obvious. I demand that the verdict of August 10, 2026 against Bogdan Syrotiuk be overturned and that he be released immediately and unconditionally.

The record of the case contains no act of treason: no espionage, no sabotage, no collaboration

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

I demand that the verdict of August 10, 2026 against Bogdan Syrotiuk be overturned and that he be released immediately and unconditionally.

The record of the case contains no act of treason: no espionage, no sabotage, no collaboration with any military force. The sole evidence presented against him consisted of his writings. Convicting a 27-year-old socialist for

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

The conviction of Bogdan Syrotiuk is not only an attack on one young socialist. It is a warning to every citizen of Ukraine: oppose the war, and you can be sentenced to fifteen years in prison. Left unchallenged, this verdict sets a precedent that other governments will use against anyone who opposes war in their own country.

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

I demand that the verdict of August 10, 2026 against Bogdan Syrotiuk be overturned and that he be released immediately and unconditionally.

The record of the case contains no act of treason: no espionage, no sabotage, no collaboration with any military force. The sole evidence presented against him consisted of his writings. Convicting a 27-year-old socialist for

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

The conviction of Bogdan Syrotiuk is not only an attack on one young socialist. It is a warning to every citizen of Ukraine: oppose the war, and you can be sentenced to fifteen years in prison. Left unchallenged, this verdict sets a precedent that other governments will use against anyone who opposes war in their own country.

To the Honourable Courts of Pervomaisk and Mykolaiv,

You have before you a living man, and yet you are asked to deal in dead souls.

Nikolai Gogol, your countryman, understood how a bureaucracy can be made feverish by phantoms. His Chichikov rode through the provinces buying up the names of dead serfs so that he might mortgage their ghosts against a future that did not exist.

Bogdan Syrotiuk is twenty-seven

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

I call on the court to overturn the verdict of August 10, 2026 against Bogdan Syrotiuk and to release him immediately.

His writings are political speech, protected by Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The trial was conducted under martial law, in a country where elections have been suspended and every left-wing party banned.

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

I demand that the verdict of August 10, 2026 against Bogdan Syrotiuk be overturned and that he be released immediately and unconditionally.

The record of the case contains no act of treason: no espionage, no sabotage, no collaboration with any military force. The sole evidence presented against him consisted of his writings. Convicting a 27-year-old socialist for

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

I demand that the verdict of August 10, 2026 against Bogdan Syrotiuk be overturned and that he be released immediately and unconditionally.

The record of the case contains no act of treason: no espionage, no sabotage, no collaboration with any military force. The sole evidence presented against him consisted of his writings. Convicting a 27-year-old socialist for

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

I demand that the verdict of August 10, 2026 against Bogdan Syrotiuk be overturned and that he be released immediately and unconditionally.

The record of the case contains no act of treason: no espionage, no sabotage, no collaboration with any military force. The sole evidence presented against him consisted of his writings. Convicting a 27-year-old socialist for

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

I demand that the verdict of August 10, 2026 against Bogdan Syrotiuk be overturned and that he be released immediately and unconditionally.

The record of the case contains no act of treason: no espionage, no sabotage, no collaboration with any military force. The sole evidence presented against him consisted of his writings. Convicting a 27-year-old socialist for

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

I demand that the verdict of August 10, 2026 against Bogdan Syrotiuk be overturned and that he be released immediately and unconditionally.

The record of the case contains no act of treason: no espionage, no sabotage, no collaboration with any military force. The sole evidence presented against him consisted of his writings. Convicting a 27-year-old socialist for

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

I demand that the verdict of August 10, 2026 against Bogdan Syrotiuk be overturned and that he be released immediately and unconditionally.

The record of the case contains no act of treason: no espionage, no sabotage, no collaboration with any military force. The sole evidence presented against him consisted of his writings. Convicting a 27-year-old socialist for

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

I demand that the verdict of August 10, 2026 against Bogdan Syrotiuk be overturned and that he be released immediately and unconditionally.

The record of the case contains no act of treason: no espionage, no sabotage, no collaboration with any military force. The sole evidence presented against him consisted of his writings. Convicting a 27-year-old socialist for

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

I demand that the verdict of August 10, 2026 against Bogdan Syrotiuk be overturned and that he be released immediately and unconditionally.

The record of the case contains no act of treason: no espionage, no sabotage, no collaboration with any military force. The sole evidence presented against him consisted of his writings. Convicting a 27-year-old socialist for

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

The August 10 2026 verdict against Bogdan Syrotiuk for high treason is clearly unjust. The "evidence" against him is purely based on his political beliefs and writings---this is nothing but a political persecution of opponents of the government.

The writings that you cite as "evidence" of treason make clear Bogdan's opposition to Putin's oligarchic regime and the

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

I am writing to protest the sentencing of Bogdan Syrotiuk to 15 years jail for treason and to demand his freedom. Political criticism is not treason. The discussion of the historical crimes of WWII Nazi collaborators such as Stepan Banderra is not a crime of treason. Calling for working people on both sides of the war to

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

I demand that the verdict of August 10, 2026 against Bogdan Syrotiuk be overturned and that he be released immediately and unconditionally.

The record of the case contains no act of treason: no espionage, no sabotage, no collaboration with any military force. The sole evidence presented against him consisted of his writings. Convicting a 27-year-old socialist for

Freedom for Bogdan Syrotiuk! On August 10, Bogdan Syrotiuk, a 27-year-old Ukrainian socialist and outspoken opponent of the US-NATO war against Russia, was sentenced to 15 years in prison. A district court in the Mykolaiv region also ordered the confiscation of his property and electronic devices and the destruction of the socialist books, leaflets, and programmatic documents seized from him. I strongly condemn the prosecution and imprisonment of Bogdan Syrotiuk

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

We demand the immediate release Bogdan Syrotiuk from his unfair imprisonment!

Whoever reads this understands that what is happening is objectively cruel and inhumane. If you don't free him now, and apologize for your miscalculation, history will document this regardless of how you want to cover it up.

The record of the case contains no act of

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

I request that the verdict of August 10, 2026 against Bogdan Syrotiuk be overturned and that he be released immediately and unconditionally.

The record of the case contains no act of treason: no espionage, no sabotage, no collaboration with any military force. The sole evidence presented against him consisted of his writings. Convicting a 27-year-old socialist for

To: inbox@pm.mk.court.gov.ua Cc: inbox@mka.court.gov.ua, freebogdan@wsws.org Subject: Скасуйте вирок Богдану Сиротюку / Overturn the verdict against Bogdan Syrotiuk

До Первомайського міськрайонного суду, копія до Миколаївського апеляційного суду,

Пишу вам із Берліна. Минулої неділі так звана «Альтернатива для Німеччини» перемогла на виборах у землі Саксонія-Ангальт. Це грізне попередження про зростання фашистських сил у Німеччині. Україна втратила чверть свого населення під час винищувальної війни, яку вела Німеччина. І все ж Богдана Сиротюка засудили

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

The horrifying absurdity of trying and imprisoning a socialist for asking Russians and Ukrainians to work together to stop the stupid, unjust war, would no doubt make Franz Kafka stop rolling in his grave and start taking notes. The verdict of guilty of August 10, 2026 against Bogdan Syrotiuk therefore ranks amongst the greatest European absurd literature,

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

I demand that the verdict of August 10, 2026 against Bogdan Syrotiuk be overturned and that he be released immediately and unconditionally.

The record of the case contains no act of treason: no espionage, no sabotage, no collaboration with any military force. The sole evidence presented against him consisted of his writings. Convicting a 27-year-old socialist for

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

The conviction of Bogdan Syrotiuk is more than the punishment of one young socialist. It sends an unmistakable and chilling message to every citizen of Ukraine: oppose the war, and the state may answer you with fifteen years in prison.

A justice system that treats political dissent as a crime does not defend democracy; it hollows it

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

As a nurse working in the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK, I am appalled by the arrest of Bogdan Syrotiuk by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), his prolonged detention under extremely difficult conditions, his lack of access to necessary medical treatment, and now the high-treason verdict handed down against him. It is a profound

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

I demand that the verdict of August 10, 2026 against Bogdan Syrotiuk be overturned and that he be released immediately and unconditionally.

The record of the case contains no act of treason: no espionage, no sabotage, no collaboration with any military force. The sole evidence presented against him consisted of his writings. Convicting a 27-year-old socialist for

To the Courts:

I write to demand the immediate release of political activist Bogdan Syrotiuk and the complete reversal of his August 10, 2026 conviction by the Pervomaisk City District Court, which sentenced him to 15 years’ imprisonment on charges of “high treason.”

This verdict is a political frame-up that criminalizes protected speech and violates Article 34 of the Constitution of Ukraine and Articles 6, 7, and 10 of the

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

I demand that the verdict of August 10, 2026 against Bogdan Syrotiuk be overturned and his release from prison. He is obviously not an agent of the russian gouvernment and no proof of this claim has been given. His internationalist, socialist and anti-war convictions are well documented and published by himself on the World Socialist Web Site.

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

The conviction of Bogdan Syrotiuk is not only an attack on one young socialist. It is a warning to every citizen of Ukraine: oppose the war, and you can be sentenced to fifteen years in prison. Even the central allegation that he was an agent of the Russian government hasn't been proven, and no act of treason

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

I demand that the verdict of August 10, 2026 against Bogdan Syrotiuk be overturned and that he be released immediately and unconditionally.

The record of the case contains no act of treason: no espionage, no sabotage, no collaboration with any military force. The sole evidence presented against him consisted of his writings. Convicting a 27-year-old socialist for

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

I demand that the verdict of August 10, 2026 against Bogdan Syrotiuk be overturned and that he be released immediately and unconditionally.

The record of the case contains no act of treason: no espionage, no sabotage, no collaboration with any military force. The sole evidence presented against him consisted of his writings. Convicting a 27-year-old socialist for

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

I demand that the verdict of August 10, 2026 against Bogdan Syrotiuk be overturned and that he be released immediately and unconditionally.

The record of the case contains no act of treason: no espionage, no sabotage, no collaboration with any military force. The sole evidence presented against him consisted of his writings. Convicting a 27-year-old socialist for

To whom it may concern,

I am writing to express my deep opposition to your court's reactionary decision to imprison Bogdan Syrotiuk for writing six articles for the World Socialist Web Site opposing the war in Ukraine and calling for the unity of Ukrainian and Russian workers against it. Indeed your court's undemocratic action explodes the narrative that this war is about defending democracy. Workers and young people in the

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

I demand that the verdict of August 10, 2026 against Bogdan Syrotiuk be overturned and that he be released immediately and unconditionally.

The record of the case contains no act of treason: no espionage, no sabotage, no collaboration with any military force. The sole evidence presented against him consisted of his writings. Convicting a 27-year-old socialist for

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

I demand that the verdict of August 10, 2026 against Bogdan Syrotiuk be overturned and that he be released immediately and unconditionally.

The record of the case contains no act of treason: no espionage, no sabotage, no collaboration with any military force. The sole evidence presented against him consisted of his writings. Convicting a 27-year-old socialist for

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

Добрий день

Я протестую проти засудження Богдана Сиротука та закликаю Вас скасувати цей вирок. Цього молодого противника війни засудили до 15 років ув’язнення за те, що він закликав російський та український трудящий народ спільно покласти край війні.

Як і кожна нормальна людина, яка не є націоналістом, Богдан усвідомлює тісні культурні та родинні зв’язки між обома країнами.

Не

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

I demand that the verdict of August 10, 2026 against Bogdan Syrotiuk be overturned and that he be released immediately and unconditionally.

The record of the case contains no act of treason: no espionage, no sabotage, no collaboration with any military force. The sole evidence presented against him consisted of his writings. Convicting a 27-year-old socialist for

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

The conviction of Bogdan Syrotiuk is not only an attack on one young socialist. It is a warning to every citizen of Ukraine: oppose the war, and you can be sentenced to fifteen years in prison. Left unchallenged, this verdict sets a precedent that other governments will use against anyone who opposes war in their own country.

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

I demand that the verdict of August 10, 2026 against Bogdan Syrotiuk be overturned and that he be released immediately and unconditionally.

The record of the case contains no act of treason: no espionage, no sabotage, no collaboration with any military force. The sole evidence presented against him consisted of his writings. Convicting a 27-year-old socialist for

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

I demand that the verdict of August 10, 2026 against Bogdan Syrotiuk be overturned and that he be released immediately and unconditionally.

The record of the case contains no act of treason: no espionage, no sabotage, no collaboration with any military force. The sole evidence presented against him consisted of his writings. Convicting a 27-year-old socialist for

To the Pervomaisk City District Court, copied to the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal,

I demand that the verdict of August 10, 2026 against Bogdan Syrotiuk be overturned and that he be released immediately and unconditionally.

The record of the case contains no act of treason: no espionage, no sabotage, no collaboration with any military force. The sole evidence presented against him consisted of his writings. Convicting a 27-year-old socialist for

I am writing to demand an end to the persecution of Bogdan Syrotiuk. He has committed no crime as a review of the facts of the case makes clear. The prosecution has failed to provide any evidence of actual crimes and instead rests its case on a collection of articles, which have been proven not to contain what the prosecution contends.

Those who oppose the war are being persecuted because

The mass media in the countries that are aiding Ukraine say they are defending democracy. The arrest and continuing abuse of Bogdan Syrotiuk is evidence of the deceit and hypocrisy of those who have been making such claims. In a democracy, citizens have the right to oppose the political decisions of their governments, which in this case means they have a right to oppose their country's becoming a pawn for

I strongly condemn the sentencing of Bogdan Syrotiuk to 15 years in prison for the articles he wrote and for defending the unity of Ukrainian and Russian workers against the war. I demand an end to this lawless situation and his immediate release. We want you to know that, until Bogdan Syrotiuk regains his freedom, we will do everything in our power to mobilise workers and young people in Turkey

Я рішуче протестую проти вироку, винесеного 10 серпня 2026 року Богдану Сиротюку — 15 років позбавлення волі за звинуваченням у «державній зраді» (ст. 111 КК України).

Обвинувачення ґрунтується виключно на політичних статтях, опублікованих на World Socialist Web Site, в яких засуджувалося російське вторгнення в Україну та містився заклик до міжнародної єдності трудящих Росії й України проти війни. Це вирок за політичні переконання, який грубо порушує право на свободу слова, гарантоване

I have learned that on August 10, 2026, your court sentenced the socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk to 15 years in prison for “treason”.

This ruling disregards the most fundamental democratic rights, foremost among them freedom of expression, despite the fact that the elements of the crime of treason are not present in the case file and that Bogdan’s writings constitute political expression protected under Article 10 of the European Convention on

I am writing to demand the immediate overturning of the August 10, 2026 verdict handed down by the Pervomaisk City District Court against Bogdan Syrotiuk, and his unconditional release from custody.

Bogdan Syrotiuk, a 27-year-old socialist and leader of the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists, was sentenced to 15 years in prison on the charge of "high treason." This conviction rests entirely on his publication of antiwar articles on the World

I write to demand that the verdict of 10 August 2026 sentencing Bogdan Syrotiuk to 15 years' imprisonment for "high treason under martial law" be overturned in full. He must be released immediately and unconditionally.

The record of this case establishes no act of treason. No espionage, no sabotage and no collaboration with any military force has been proved, or seriously attempted to be proved. The case rests entirely on

I fully support the case of Bogdan Syrotiuk, a courageous opponent of tyranny, regardless of its origins. The cruel, unjust, and excessive sentence, imposed on him by the Ukrainian court, makes a mockery of claims that Ukraine is struggling for “freedom” and “democracy”.

I urge you to pardon and liberate him immediately, if not on grounds of justice and compassion (his health is very poor), then to help convince Ukraine’s

I write to demand the release of 27 year old Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk, who has been jailed for his opposition to the war in Ukraine. Bogdan has written a number of articles for the World Socialist Web Site, taking a principled stand of not supporting either side in this bloody conflict, but seeking a resolution through the unity of Ukrainian and Russian workers for peace.

While Bogdan remains in

Засудження українського соціаліста та противника війни США і НАТО проти Росії Богдана Сиротіука до 15 років позбавлення волі, конфіскація його майна та соціалістичних книг є абсолютно неприйнятними! Його називають зрадником Батьківщини, мовляв, Богдан пише свої статті на «Світовому соціалістичному веб-сайті». В одній із цих статей він стверджував, що нинішній керівник України не є легітимним, оскільки термін його законних повноважень минув понад два роки тому, він не провів виборів і керує

I strongly protest the conviction of Bogdan Syrotiuk and demand that the verdict sentencing him to 15 years in prison be immediately overturned and that he be released.

The case against Mr Syrotiuk has failed to establish any act of treason. As documented by the World Socialist Web Site, the principal evidence consisted of his socialist political writings and communications with the WSWS. No evidence of espionage, sabotage or collaboration

Богдан Сиротіук, якого 10 серпня 2026 року засудили до 15 років позбавлення волі за звинуваченням у «зраді батьківщини», є невинним. Він не скоював злочинів, у яких його звинувачують, а лише користувався своїми основними демократичними правами, такими як свобода преси та свобода слова. Я вимагаю негайного звільнення Богдана Сиротіука.

Bogdan Syrotiuk, who was sentenced to 15 years in prison on August 10, 2026, on charges of “treason,” is not guilty. He

I strongly condemn the sentencing of Bogdan Syrotiuk to 15 years in prison for the articles he wrote and for defending the unity of Ukrainian and Russian workers against the war. I demand an end to this lawless situation and his immediate release. We want you to know that, until Bogdan Syrotiuk regains his freedom, we will do everything in our power to mobilise workers and young people in Turkey

We write to condemn in the strongest possible terms the conviction and sentencing of Bogdan Syrotiuk—a 27-year-old socialist and leader of the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists—to 15 years in prison for "high treason" by the Pervomaisk City District Court on August 10, 2026. This verdict is not a legal proceeding. It is a political frame-up, a fascistic assault on freedom of thought and expression, and a crime against the most