UKRAINE: Arrest of times gone by in search of work

History Russian Ability has been captured by the Ukrainian security, and SBU said on the basis of his research Ukraine insurgent Army and Ukraine itself to walk in the 1940s and 1950s, the Kyiv Post reported on September 17.

Ability, the head of the Lvov National Memorial Museum of Victims of the Occupation Government, Thurman No. Lonskoho prison on 8 September 2010 and held for 14 hours after the laptop and two external hard drives were confiscated.

The SBU say Ability illegally gathered state secrets in order to offer.

More than 100 students worldwide have signed a petition calling for the release Ability, and their views about access to information in the Ukrainian higher education system.

The petition states that "if we have Russian Ability views or not, we feel absolutely at him remissible to security contempt research and business intelligence applications ... we believe that the resolution of researchers conflict depends on the work attitude, and cozy and old, regardless of the views of even".

Toward the end of his years of President Victor Yushchenko ordered the secret documents of Ukraine from, which fell under the control of the security, to declassified.

There are concerns that connecting to come out of the stands under the leadership of the current President, Viktor Yanukovych.

"A free people truly want to talk about the past, that it is possible to get from where they are allowed," said Timothy Snyder, history professor from Yale University with extensive experience in Eastern Europe.

Iran: Prison student leader appeals to release documents

A letter from Abdullah Moment, detained political and prophet of the Alumni Student Organization Adverb-e taken, has been assigned a top leader Ayatollah Set money, which describes the torture and forced confessions, Radio Yamane Profile 9 September.

The letter, published by the International Conventions on Human Rights in Iran, describes the persecution forced to admit Moment met before have been forced to appear in the "How the trials' summer 2010.

In Abdullah Moment describes "the most striking suffocations and interrogators until he was unconscious", "confinement for 86 days and 1.6 x 2.2 m (4.8 x 6.6 foot) cell", and "repeatedly threatened by a successful execution."

He added that rejecting the law representation and lack of freedom judge.

Moment was arrested on 20 June 2009, the violence following the disputed June presidential election, and now four years in prison in Even prison.

The reformist opposition has repeatedly said that the case did not agree were forced by persecution. Iranian officials deny the reports.

Moment said to encourage writing this letter came from stamp admitted Set money gave "to accept the case before the cameras and millions of show." Moment stressed: "I still stand by my beliefs before being arrested, and as I have explained, I do not think the word is read in court on problems with me."