An Evening with Maksym Butkevych - Ein Abend mit Maksym Butkewytsch
An Evening with Maksym Butkevych, laureate of the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize Friday, December 19th, at 7 p.m. in Bremen (venue to be announced soon) The event will be held in English. / Die Veranstaltung findet auf Englisch statt (Ankündigung in deutscher Sprache weiter unten). Maksym Butkevych was long known in Ukraine and abroad for his human rights activism, his critical journalism, his pacifist and antifascist beliefs, and his role among the Ukrainian anarchist community. After the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he went to the army to fight against the encroaching Russian occupation. In June 2022 in Eastern Ukraine he was captured as a prisoner of war, was tortured into confession then sentenced to 13 years in prison. After 28 months in prison in occupied Luhansk Oblast, Butkevych was released in a prisoner swap in October 2024. Since his release, he has stayed very active. He has spoken out at events and met with politicians in various countries, published a book, co...