Persecution of Ukrainians for their thoughts, statements and actions. Analysis for the past week.

From April 1, 2022, every week, on Thursdays, we analyze the information of the Prosecutor General's Office on criminal cases that the law enforcement agencies of Ukraine are investigating, starting from February 24, 2022.

We published the last analysis on June 16.

On June 23, the prosecutor's office released new information.

The total number of criminal cases under politically motivated articles: "waging aggressive war", "high treason", "encroachment on territorial integrity", "sabotage", "collaboration activities" for the week from June 16 to June 23 increased from 26,388 to 28 482, that is, by 2093 (increased by 2143 over the previous week).

This means that the prosecutor's office opened an average of 299 criminal cases per day. Last week, from June 9 to June 16, security forces opened an average of 306 politically motivated criminal cases per day.

That is, the total number of politically motivated criminal cases initiated over the past week has slightly decreased compared to the previous period.

Significantly, from 5962 to 6536, that is, by 574, the number of those accused of "infringement on territorial integrity" has increased (Article 110, it mainly persecutes bloggers and those who expressed an opinion different from official propaganda).

That is, 82 Ukrainians are accused under this article every day. Over the previous week, 87 people were charged a day.

Thus, here we see that the number of repressions has slightly decreased.

The number of people accused of "high treason" (Article 111 of the Criminal Code) also increased over the week - from 1117 to 1170.

That is, over the past week, an average of 7-8 citizens a day have been accused of "high treason".

And earlier the rate of accusations of "high treason" was 6-7 per day.

That is, over the past week, the pace of accusations of Ukrainians in "treason" remained at an average level.

"Treason" (Article 111 of the Criminal Code) is the most serious political accusation. An accused citizen can end up in prison for 15 years or for life.

Also, over the past week, the number of charges against Ukrainians under Articles 111-1 (“collaboration activity”) and 111-2 (“assistance to the aggressor”) has increased significantly, from 1205 to 1271, that is, by 66.

Thus, the pace of political repressions in Ukraine last week slightly decreased compared to the week of June 9-16, but still remained at a fairly high level.

Almost all those accused on politically motivated articles are in prison.

The first of them, Oleksandr Matyushenko, a left-wing activist from Dnepropetrovsk, was sentenced on May 24 by a local court under Article 110 (“encroachment on territorial integrity”) to 3 years in prison.

On June 3, the former leader of the Union of Left Forces, Vasily Volga, who was arrested on March 7, was released from prison.

On June 7, Odessa journalist Yury Tkachev, who was arrested on March 19, was released from prison.

On June 20, blogger Gleb Lyashenko, who was arrested in Lvov on March 31, was released on bail.

All of them paid large bails for their temporary release, but their trials are ongoing and they cannot leave their place of residence without permission from the investigating authorities.

The rest of the accused on politically motivated charges, as far as we have information, almost all are in custody.

At least three supporters of the opposition MP Ilya Kiva arrested by the SBU at the end of February 2022 were killed.

Thus, today we can already talk about more than 25 thousand political prisoners in Ukraine.

From June 8 to June 23, 2022, the Administrative Court of Appeal in the city of Lviv banned 12 leftist and opposition parties in Ukraine.

On May 16, 2022, the Administrative Court of Appeal in the city of Kyiv banned the activities of the Communist Party of Ukraine.