#LetMyPeopleGo Newsletter, Issue #28                                       View this email in your browser

Seven delegations join in demarche as PACE lifts all sanctions on Russian delegation
On June 26, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe voted to accept the Russian delegation, which was sanctioned after the occupation of Crime, back to the Assembly without any limitations. The resolution also rejected all amendments proposed by Ukrainian, Georgian, British, and other PACE Assembly Members.
There may be some questions of the legitimacy of the Russian delegation members, with question of whether or not their election was legal. In the mean time, seven delegations have joined a demarche, returning home for consultation and stating the Council of Europe was “losing the trust of the people it stands to protect.”

Balukh Refusing Food and Water in Protest of Treatment in Russian Prison
Volodymyr Balukh is serving a sentence in Russian prison for having a Ukrainian flag over his home in Crimea. He was transferred from the Crimean prison without warning or reason earlier this year, and has since been placed in a punishment cell five times.
Additionally, Russian authorities refuse to allow the Ukrainian consul to visit him. In protest of the harsh conditions he is facing, Balukh announced a hunger strike last Tuesday, refusing even water.

Ukrainian Jailed for Protest over Monument to Russian Invaders of Crimea
A Russian-controlled court in Simferopol has sentenced Maxim Sokurenko to six months in a minimum-security prison colony over paint which he sprayed on a monument to the Russian invaders of Crimea.
Sokurenko was convicted of committing the act while “motivated by political enmity" based on his rejection of Russia's occupation of Crimea. This was the basis of his case being treated as a criminal proceeding, rather than a minor administrative charge.

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