On 14 January 2015 Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) President Eugene Czolij issued a letter to Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) President Anne Brasseur calling upon her to publicly support Nadiya Savchenko, the former Ukrainian Air Force pilot, Member of Ukrainian Parliament and delegate to PACE, who remains imprisoned in the Russian Federation for political considerations.
The kidnapping, imprisonment, involuntary psychiatric evaluation and solitary confinement of Ukrainian Member of Parliament Nadiya Savchenko are all reprehensible acts that call for immediate and unequivocal action by the international community.
“The Ukrainian World Congress urges PACE to avail itself of all necessary measures to secure the immediate release of Nadiya Savchenko and all prisoners illegally detained by the Russian Federation,” stated UWC President Eugene Czolij.
