09.09.10
The SBU [Security Service] asserts that the historian Ruslan Zabily is an SBU employee and was detained for 14 and a half hours on Wednesday for planning to divulge State secrets.
On 8 September in Kyiv the Director of the National Memorial Museum of Victims of the Occupation Regimes “Tyurma na Lonskoho” (Lviv), Ruslan Zabily was detained for 14 and a half hours
The Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union has received a document which shows that the President’s Administration is gathering information from around the entire country about, among other things, the political views of those in all leading positions
It was just checking that the International Renaissance Foundation is not financing political parties
The “Media Front” employees’ trade union wants to know whyTV STB Special Correspondent, Serhiy Andrushko’s feature on officials’ lack of knowledge of the Ukrainian language was prevented from being broadcast
On 7 September police officers detained Serhiy Panasenko who was handing out a leaflet entitled “Huge Lies” near a metro station. According to his lawyer, the detention is a flagrant example of police lawlessness and confidence that they can violate human rights with impunity
The Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union has initiated an Appeal open for endorsement by civic organizations, over the secretive drawing up by the Ministry of Justice of a draft law on the creation of National Preventive Mechanisms against torture
In recent days the Security Service [SBU] has joined the pressure exerted by the tax police and control and audit authorities on the Crimean opposition channel, Chornomorka. Its management believe the authorities are trying to make it bankrupt
Yevhen Bystrytsky, Head of the International Renaissance Foundation, believes that with such actions as the Security Service’s questioning of civic organizations receiving support from IRF, the authorities are trying to warn the public that they should not interfere in the course of the elections and should concentrate less on monitoring violations.
Resolution from the 2 September public hearings initiated by “Stop Censorship” to discuss the Concept Framework for Public Broadcasting drawn up by the President’s Humanitarian Council
The Verkhovna Rada Enquiry Commission on Cases of Censorship in the Media wants a special session of parliament on the media and the situation with freedom of speech, as well as on the passing of media laws
Several civic organizations in the Kyiv region carrying out projects financed by IRF have been approached by the Security Service [SBU]. They have been asked for information about the aims and tasks of their projects, their financial component and assessment of their impact on the pre-election situation in Ukraine
On carefully edited and misleading information about the law on the local elections and Yanukovych’s visit to Germany on the First National TV channel which is there to inform the public of important events in the country and abroad. Whatever other roles it may be performing, this task it abysmally fails.
Ukrainians trying to reach the opposition demonstration in Kyiv report pressure from the traffic police and heightened interest from the SBU [Security Service]
07.09.10
Dobkin hints of „dark forces” at the beginning of the election campaign, his “intuition” telling him that the journalist, missing since 11 August, will be found safe and well and says that people disappear all the time
07.09.10
The BYuT [Tymoshenko’s bloc] Press Service alleges that the Security Service [SBU] and the Crimean Prosecutor are using any pretext to try to prevent the broadcasting of the daily talk show “Political evening with Volodymyr Andronaki on the Crimean TV channel Chornomorska.
Charter 97 colleagues complain that the interrogators seem to be more interested in how the opposition site operates than in the circumstances of Byabenin’s death. Charter 97 has been highly critical of the government, and Byabenin was a particularly sharp critic of Lukashenko
With the tree-felling in Kharkiv and methods used, Ukraine will not draw nearer to the European Union. This warning was heard by Bundestag Deputy from the Greens, Viola von Kramon
A Security Service officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, has said that Intertelecom indeed refused to install an automated system of communications interception, but said that it was probably the only company to have done so (and that a criminal case had been found against them over something else)
It is six years since the terrorist seizure of School No. 1 in Beslan, North Ossetia (RF) resulted in the death of 333 hostages, more than half of them children. Relatives of the victims believe that the investigation is not being run in an objective fashion, and is being deliberately dragged out
