Bob Amsterdam
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When you say persecution, that doesn't sum it up.
I'm talking about torture.
I'm talking about the theft of churches.
No, no.
Torture you.
I have pictures.
I have videos.
There's a trial going on in England where the Ukrainians are trying to ship back...
A former member of parliament of Ukraine whose crime was to speak out for the church.
they, on the day they passed this horrendous bill to ban the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, a bill that I would say has no comparison in Europe since the Nuremberg laws.
When they passed this bill to ban this church, this man had the courage to stand up in the Rada, in their parliament, to denounce it.
For that, Zelensky and Yermak pulled his security.
knowing that his statements would be highly controversial and perhaps deadly, he realized that there was basically a death warrant.
He fled the country on foot through a forest, made it to the UK,
Within 14 days of arrival in the UK, they were trying to extradite him back to Ukraine for some hooliganism charge.
And, you know, fortunate for him, I knew him.
I knew when I had met him in Ukraine, when I had been there, that he had evidence of torture.
We're now taking that evidence of torture to the courts.
Ukraine is a one-party, one-person autocratic state.
that has no comparison to any democratic values rather today is a mirror