Ukrainian Catholic University urges government ‘restore constitutional order’ to Ukraine
“We urge the national deputies from the pro-government parties to be aware that by their votes they have encroached on the Constitution of Ukraine. [And we urge them] immediately to restore constitutional order in the state.
“In its very essence this brutally enacted legislation violates the democratic rights and constitutional freedoms of the citizens of Ukraine, in particular freedom of conscience, view point, speech, information, assembly, association, communication, movement, and the rights to property and privacy. We want to recall: the government is not the source of human rights. Human dignity is. And so the government cannot take away that which is given to the people not by it but by God.” – An excerpt from the “Statement of the Ukrainian Catholic University on the Further Deterioration of the Sociopolitical Situation in Ukraine.”