Oksana Shachko dead – Farewell letter found by the founder of Femen – Politics Abroad

This farewell is extremely painful.

One of the four founders of the women's rights group Femen was found dead in her Paris apartment.

Now, it became known: the Ukrainian Oksana Schachko (31) left a letter of farewell .

"We are crying together with family and friends," Femen chief Anna Guzol wrote on Facebook. The group is now waiting for "the official version of the police" to kill the 31-year-old.

Activists also reacted with a vibrant appeal on the Facebook pages of the countries in German, English, French and Russian: "Some knew them, many respected them, never let them fall into oblivion Oksana Shachko, one of the most remarkable women of our time She is one of the greatest fighters who broke her own unjust hurdles, who fought harder against the injustice of the society that fought for herself and for all the She stood with FEMEN on the Independence Square in Kiev, waving flags in the sky and shouting slogans in silence. "

Who was Oksana Schachko

Guzol, Shachko and two others activists founded Femen in Ukraine in 2008 [19659003] According to the group, Shachko was one of three Femen combatant comrades allegedly kidnapped and abused by security forces in 2011 after a night protest against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. According to the group, the kidnappers poured oil on the women in a forest and threatened to set them on fire.

The group wrote: "She survived in the Belarusian forest after having been tortured, and walking in the streets of Paris as new groups of female combatants formed, Oksana has always remained a true fighter, a free spirit. "

The group stated that Shachko had been abducted again when Russian President Vladimir Putin was visiting Ukraine. According to her lawyer, she was beaten in the hospital by strangers.