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Wednesday, 24.04.2024, 20:57
Kyiv journalist asks for asylum in Lithuania
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"If I return to Ukraine, they will send me to prison and repress me there, and no one will say a word. I will ask for asylum until the end, and I will return when they start hanging the Yanukovych-led gang on posts. I'll help. I'll rub the ropes with soap," Shariy said.
He said that a few months ago he went to Russia and then he travelled to the Netherlands, asking for asylum there. However, since there was a Lithuanian visa in his passport, according to the Dublin agreement, the Dutch authorities sent him to Lithuania, writes LETA/ELTA.
The journalist said that the reason for his decision was his persecution by law enforcement agencies.
"I do not distinguish the Ukrainian authorities from the Interior Ministry. This is a government of bandits. These men, being protected by the law, can imprison anyone," he said.
Two criminal cases were opened against Shariy in Ukraine, which he says are trumped-up.
"They trumped up one case over a shooting at McDonald's. A man attacked my wife who is on maternity leave, behaved improperly, and who invited me to fight. As a result, he received two bullets from a gun with rubber bullets and a light bodily injury," Shariy said.
"The man left, but I called the police and gave evidence. Nobody called me in for questioning, and all was quiet. The head of the Shevchenkivsky district department of police, Hryntsevych, said that there were no grounds to open a criminal case against me. A month later, Deputy Interior Minister Farynnyk [opened a criminal case against] me," he added.
Shariy said that the incident at McDonald's was no coincidence, because earlier he began investigating the subject of illegal drug trade that "was covered, speaking directly, led, by the Interior Ministry." According to the journalist, the police conducted their investigation into the shooting at McDonalds in four days, trumped up a criminal case against him under Part 4, Article 296 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism committed with a firearm) and sent it to the courts.
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