A court in
the Russian city of Arkhangelsk has called for the release of Igor Stygian
academic, he has a 15-year sentence for spying rejected. Radio Free Europe /
Radio Liberty reports that Stygian, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
and the Institute Canada, was sentenced in 2004 allegedly passing classified
information about Russia's nuclear weapons a London-based firm.
The academic denied the charges and in 2007 the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe demanded his immediate release. Amnesty International also called a prisoner of conscience Stygian. According to REF / R, the court has the last call for his release on the grounds that he broke prison rules rejected.
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (REF / R)
Iran: Student detained and denied access to lawyers
Maid Awakening, a student at Amur Jarib University, continues to be denied access to his lawyers and visits from his family, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said. Three months ago, Awakening was sentenced to eight years and six months imprisonment and a five-year ban on travel abroad. He was transferred to Even prison on 20 April 2010 after 125 days in solitary confinement.
Awakening, known for his commitment to human rights, was arrested with violence on December 7 after a speech to students at his university to commemorate Day Student Council. As he tried to leave the campus, he was beaten by security agents and taken into custody.
He had previously arrested twice in prison, once in 2008 during the production of student publications and again in February 2009 during his participation in a memorial service for Midi Bargain, a prominent Iranian scholar.
The academic denied the charges and in 2007 the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe demanded his immediate release. Amnesty International also called a prisoner of conscience Stygian. According to REF / R, the court has the last call for his release on the grounds that he broke prison rules rejected.
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (REF / R)
Iran: Student detained and denied access to lawyers
Maid Awakening, a student at Amur Jarib University, continues to be denied access to his lawyers and visits from his family, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said. Three months ago, Awakening was sentenced to eight years and six months imprisonment and a five-year ban on travel abroad. He was transferred to Even prison on 20 April 2010 after 125 days in solitary confinement.
Awakening, known for his commitment to human rights, was arrested with violence on December 7 after a speech to students at his university to commemorate Day Student Council. As he tried to leave the campus, he was beaten by security agents and taken into custody.
He had previously arrested twice in prison, once in 2008 during the production of student publications and again in February 2009 during his participation in a memorial service for Midi Bargain, a prominent Iranian scholar.
International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran
UK: Cambridge changed rules layoffs easier
Changes at the University of Cambridge law may make it easier to make difficult Dons bag, says the Guardian. The University Council, headed by the vice-chancellor, is proposing to strip Regent House (parliament the Dons' half-staff of the university's existence) of his right to approve the names of staff set for the dismissal.
The new proposals could mean that academics that a dismissal hearing in the face equality in the face to librarians, laboratory technicians and other non-academic staff, says the Guardian. Until now, academics heard the rights of their cases by the vice-chancellor and a committee of seven, which serves as a university court of appeal.
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