Editor’s Note: The following is the open petition to the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych supported by Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union and first published at Telekritika website.

Open Appeal to the President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych

*YOUR VOICE IS NEEDED *Please help us get it through to those in power in Ukraine that justice is not a commodity, and prosecutions cannot be used to settle scores and remove political opponents.* The appeal can be endorsed by writing to zeropersecution@gmail.com