Тhe Southern District Military Court of the Russian Federation has criminally sentenced activist and artist Bohdan Ziza to 15 years in a general regime colonу

The Southern District Military Court of the Russian Federation has criminally sentenced activist and artist Bohdan Ziza to 15 years in a general regime colony on charges of alleged “terrorism” and “vandalism for political reasons.”

Bohdan Ziza spent more than 8 years of occupation under the influence of the total propaganda of the occupation regime, but he did not break down and remained loyal to his country, taking care of his grandmother, who raised him from childhood. And after the liberation of Kyiv region and the disclosure of the truth about the crimes of the occupation army on the territory of mainland Ukraine, he could no longer remain silent.

In May last year, he poured blue and yellow paint on the building of the occupation administration of Yevpatoria to protest against the occupation regime and the war started by Russia. Dressed in all black and wearing a face mask, he made a video before the action where he called himself “Sirota” and called on his fellow citizens to protest the war and take to the streets.

He was detained on the same day, May 16, on the denunciation of a Taliban propaganda blogger who posted a video of the action, taken from an unknown source. Soon after, the occupiers posted Ziza’s so-called “video apology”, filmed after beating and torturing him – this video was also used to fabricate the case itself. After almost a year in the detention center, the occupiers deported the political prisoner to Rostov-on-Don.

In his illegal detention, Bohdan continued to speak out in support of Ukraine and wrote letters about it. Yesterday, in his last speech at the trial, the political prisoner went on a hunger strike since June 10, demanding that he be deprived of his “Russian citizenship” imposed by the occupation passport and that all Ukrainian political prisoners held by Russia be released.