Farion’s students ask law enforcement officers to check her words about military personnel. DOCUMENT
The collegium and the trade union committee of students of Lviv Polytechnic National University, where linguist Iryna Farion teaches, call on law enforcement officers to check her statements for insulting the honor and dignity of the military.
The corresponding statement was made public by the university students' board, Censor.NET reports.
"We are in the tenth year of the war and the second year of a full-scale war. Our population is threatened by occupation, death by shelling, and our national identity and freedom are at risk of destruction. There are military personnel standing between us and these threats," the statement reads.
The collegium stated that "playing into the hands of the enemy and media dissemination of offensive narratives about Russian-speaking servicemen" do not coincide with the values of students.
But they assured that they reserve the right to investigate whether Ms. Farion made such accusations while teaching.
The student board recalled that the Criminal Code provides for restriction of liberty for a term of 3 to 5 years or imprisonment for the same period for insulting the honor and dignity of a serviceman.
"We call on the relevant law enforcement agencies to consider the situation and establish the fact of violation of the Criminal Code or the fact of its absence," the authors of the statement concluded.
Recall that on November 7, Iryna Farion said that she does not consider the Russian-speaking military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to be Ukrainians. Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets saw this as a violation of the equality of citizens and said that he had appealed to the National Police, the Security Service of Ukraine and the National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting to take appropriate measures. Soldiers from the front line responded to the linguist in Ukrainian, calling her "stupid #ck".
