Robert Amsterdam on the arrest of journalists: We will go to the UN
Bob Amsterdam. Photo: chimpreports.com
On 15 March 2024, Bob Amsterdam commented on the illegal detention of UOJ journalists by the SBU forces. The video was published on the YouTube channel “Save the Ukrainian Orthodox Church”.
The lawyer said that the Ukrainian authorities, having control over television, constantly run propaganda videos against the UOC, “culminating in not only these violent takeovers, but just days ago they seized journalists connected with the UOC, jailing four of them and then their spokesman said that priests or journalists who follow the UOC could end up with a lifetime in jail."
Amsterdam also emphasized that there is nothing more sacred than than the right to worship your God. We cannot in the west sit back and allow the entire religion to be banned – this is unacceptable.
"We will go to the UN Committee Against Torture with specific cases," the lawyer said.
"Let this be a warning to all these ultra right-wingers in Ukraine who think that now with a weakened president who is facing the end of his term, they can continue to run rough shot over the key moral religious and legal principles upon which any proper democratic state is based," Bob Amsterdam said.
As reported earlier by the UOJ, Robert Amsterdam Bob Amsterdam told about the persecution of the UOC.
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