Historian Russian Ability was arrested by the Ukrainian
Security Service, the SUB, allegedly on the basis of his research in the
Ukrainian Insurgent Army and the Ukraine's independence movement in the 1940s
and 1950s, the Ky iv Post reported on 17 September.
Ability, head of Lvov National Memorial Museum of Victims of the Occupation Regimes, Thurman to Longhorn, was arrested on 8 September 2010 and held for 14 hours after his laptop and two external hard drives seized.
The SUB claims that Ability illegally collect state secrets with the intent to distribute them.
More than 100 academics worldwide a petition for the release of Ability and expressing their concern about access to information in the Ukrainian system of higher education signed.
The petition states that "if we share views Russian Ability or not, we consider it absolutely inadmissible for harassing a security service to researchers and hamper intellectual activities ... we believe that the decision of scientific disputes depends on the free flow of ideas and free access to historical sources, no matter how controversial they may be. "
In the last years of his presidency Victor Yevtushenko decided to secret documents in Ukraine's archives, which came under the jurisdiction of the security services, be declassified.
There is concern that access to the archives to a halt under the leadership of the current president, Victor Yanukovych comes.
"A free society requires an honest discussion about the past, which is only possible when access to archives is allowed," said Timothy Snyder, a well-known history professor from Yale University with extensive experience in Eastern Europe.
Ability, head of Lvov National Memorial Museum of Victims of the Occupation Regimes, Thurman to Longhorn, was arrested on 8 September 2010 and held for 14 hours after his laptop and two external hard drives seized.
The SUB claims that Ability illegally collect state secrets with the intent to distribute them.
More than 100 academics worldwide a petition for the release of Ability and expressing their concern about access to information in the Ukrainian system of higher education signed.
The petition states that "if we share views Russian Ability or not, we consider it absolutely inadmissible for harassing a security service to researchers and hamper intellectual activities ... we believe that the decision of scientific disputes depends on the free flow of ideas and free access to historical sources, no matter how controversial they may be. "
In the last years of his presidency Victor Yevtushenko decided to secret documents in Ukraine's archives, which came under the jurisdiction of the security services, be declassified.
There is concern that access to the archives to a halt under the leadership of the current president, Victor Yanukovych comes.
"A free society requires an honest discussion about the past, which is only possible when access to archives is allowed," said Timothy Snyder, a well-known history professor from Yale University with extensive experience in Eastern Europe.
Iran: Imprisoned student leader bill of appeal
A letter of Abdullah Moment, detained political activist and spokesperson for the Alumni Student Organization Adverb e taken to supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini, in which he told torture and forced confessions sent Radio Yamane reported on 9 September.
The letter, published by the International Campaign on human rights in Iran, described faced torture and forced confessions Moment before forced to appear in the "show trials" of summer 2010.
In his letter describes Abdullah Moment "severe beatings and suffocations by interrogators until he became unconscious," "solitary confinement for 86 days in a 1.6 × 2.2 meters (4.8 × 6.6 feet) cell", and "repeatedly threatened with leading performance."
He also referred to the denial of legal representation and the lack of independence of its courts.
Moment was arrested on June 20, 2009 during the unrest after the disputed June presidential elections, and is currently serving a four-year prison sentence in Even prison.
Reform opposition has repeatedly claimed that show trial confessions were forced because of torture. Iranian officials deny the allegation.
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