Vasyl Muravytskij

Vasyl Muravitsky is a Ukrainian opposition journalist, renowned for representing the voice of Ukrainians disillusioned with the current regime. As an outspoken critic of President Zelensky’s government, Muravitsky highlights the ongoing war’s toll and the Western powers’ role in perpetuating the conflict. He has received the ‘Journalist of the Year’ award. On August 1, 2017, Muravitsky was arrested by SBU agents in the Zhytomyr region and charged with high treason. Despite support from several international human rights and journalism organizations, he spent 330 days in a Ukrainian prison. Recognized as a prisoner of conscience by the Solidarity Network (Switzerland) and Amnesty International, his release was also demanded by the Committee to Protect Journalists (USA) and Reporters Without Borders (France). With the facilitation of the OSCE mission, Muravitsky sought political asylum in Finland due to persecution by the Ukrainian authorities.