This woman should have a movie made based on her actions. Natalia Dmytruk is an official interpreter for the state-run television network in the Ukraine. She started to get fed up with the fact that the recent election had been rigged, and the opposition party didn’t have access to the media. One morning she covertly signed a message while she was supposed to be interpreting the official version of the election results.
…she signed: “I am addressing everybody who is deaf in the Ukraine. Our president is Victor Yushchenko. Do not trust the results of the central election committee. They are all lies. … And I am very ashamed to translate such lies to you. Maybe you will see me again,” she concluded, hinting at what fate might await her. She then continued signing the rest of officially scripted news.
This is an amazing story. I can’t imagine being in that position, knowing that she had the unique opportunity she did, with the risks that act carried.