Dr. Igor Stygian (photo), a Russian nuclear scientist and
former head of department at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, was
released from prison on 9 July.
According to reports from the BBC, Stygian was delivered to Britain as one of a number of individuals convicted of spying in Russia exchanged with 10-11 individuals by the US alleged Russian spies.
Stygian was arrested by the Russian Federal Security Service in October 1999 charged with espionage and sentenced to 15 years in a strict-regime penal colony, in a case that advocates human rights apparently politically motivated and part of a widespread clampdown on freedom to be of expression in Russia.
Stygian was accused of passing classified information to a London-based research firm for whom he was conducting freelance analysis of civil-military relations in Russia.
Stygian has always maintained that he was just a public sources of information and as a civilian researcher has no access to classified sources.
His case has been identified as that of a political prisoner by both Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, which also claimed Sustains trial did not meet international standards.
Israel Academics fight for the freedom to dissent
More than 500 Israeli academics, including two former ministers education, a protest against the new laws petition, backed by the government of Benjamin Chaitanya, Israeli academics who openly support an academic boycott of signed Israeli institutions criminalize, the Guardian reported on 11 July.
According to reports from the BBC, Stygian was delivered to Britain as one of a number of individuals convicted of spying in Russia exchanged with 10-11 individuals by the US alleged Russian spies.
Stygian was arrested by the Russian Federal Security Service in October 1999 charged with espionage and sentenced to 15 years in a strict-regime penal colony, in a case that advocates human rights apparently politically motivated and part of a widespread clampdown on freedom to be of expression in Russia.
Stygian was accused of passing classified information to a London-based research firm for whom he was conducting freelance analysis of civil-military relations in Russia.
Stygian has always maintained that he was just a public sources of information and as a civilian researcher has no access to classified sources.
His case has been identified as that of a political prisoner by both Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, which also claimed Sustains trial did not meet international standards.
Israel Academics fight for the freedom to dissent
More than 500 Israeli academics, including two former ministers education, a protest against the new laws petition, backed by the government of Benjamin Chaitanya, Israeli academics who openly support an academic boycott of signed Israeli institutions criminalize, the Guardian reported on 11 July.
The petition was prompted by recent comments by Israel's education minister, Gideon Saar, that the government take action against boycott supporters.
A new bill heard by the Israeli parliament would prohibit boycotts and punishment their supporters, including the prohibition on foreign nationals who encourage or support boycotts entering Israel for 10 years.
In the academic sector, it would be a small number of academics in support of the Boycott spoke touch, Divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign, including Never Gordon, author of Israel's Occupation.
Although the majority of signatories of the petition does not support an academic boycott, all identified the new law as an attempt to suppress freedom of speech. The petition reads: "We have different and varied opinions about solving the difficult problems Israel, but there is one thing we agreed on - freedom of expression and academic freedom is the very lifeblood of the academic system."
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