Cross posted from https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/71011050

25 year old, Bogdan Syrotiuk is a Ukrainian revolutionary of the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists, a Trotskyist youth group. Like many Trotskyists, Syrotiuk opposes Russian imperialism and the attempts of Moscow to conquer Ukraine. But unlike many western style democrats, Syrotiuk also rejects the Ukrainian government and state, which he denounces as capitalist and not in the service of the Ukrainian working class. Since 22 February 2022, Ukraine is under martial law. The capitalist government uses the martial law to imprison anybody they declared to be ”loyal to Moscow”. Last year, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) arrested Bogdan Syrotiuk. For 12 months now he is held in a SBU prison and his health has declined. Ukrainian prisons are bad and prisoners are not getting proper treatment.