Ukraine: The take into custody of the historian's research activities

Ukrainian security service arrested the historian Russian Zanily, SB ', according to his opinion, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and the independence of Ukraine on the basis of the investigation into the movement of the 1940s and 1950s, the Kyiv Post on September 17.

Zanily, Lvov National Memorial Museum Occupation regime, led by Thurman an Lonskoho Victims, held on 8 September 2010 and detained for 14 hours and confiscated his laptop after two external hard drives.

SB 'claims Zanily illegally collected state secrets with intent to distribute them.

More than 100 academics from around the world to demand the release of Zanily request, the Ukrainian higher education system, access to information and expressing concern over the signing.

Checkout the "Russian Zanily share opinions or whether we do not, if we take into account, researchers from the security services to harass and obstruct the intellectual activities ... impermissible for we believe that academic conflict resolution depends on free flow of ideas, and historical sources, not no matter how controversial they may be "free access.

The latter years of his presidency, Ukraine Victor Yushchenko decreed archives, and security services that fall under the jurisdiction of the secret documents, to be declassified.

There are no files that the current president, Viktor Yanukovych has left the leadership of the concern.

"In a free society, honest dialogue with its past, which is only allowed to ask about the archives," said Timothy Snyder, a renowned professor of history at Yale University with extensive experience in Eastern Europe.

Iran: Imprisoned leader of the youth appeal releases letter

Abdullah Moment, a political activist detained and Student Alumni Organization spokeswoman Adverb-e taking the letter has been sent to the supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini, he tells of torture and forced confessions, Radio Yamane the 9th of September.

The letter, published by the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, torture and coerced confessions were Moment 'show trials' to appear before the summer of 2010 shows.

Abdullah Moment his letter describes "severe beatings and suffocations by interrogators until he lost consciousness", "86 days in solitary confinement, 1.6 × 2.2 meters (4.8 × 6.6 feet) cell", and "being repeatedly eminent under the threat of execution. "

Likewise, the denial of legal representation and he cited the lack of independence of its judges.

Moment was arrested on 20 June 2009, including the unrest in the disputed June elections, and now is serving a four-year prison Evan prison.

Reformist opposition has repeatedly alleged that the show trial forced confessions were the result of torture. Iranian officials deny this allegation.