Dear comrades, you can help to put an end to the continuing tortures of the arrested leftists. We ask you to picket Ukrainian embassies and consulates and to present their representatives your demands to stop the mistreatment of the arrested young communists, to punish their torturers and to stop the witch hunt and the hysterical redbaiting. Your protests against the state terrorism of the Ukrainian authorities can and will make a difference.

Please, telegraph and/or fax your protests to the following addresses:

1. SBU (State Security Service) of Ukraine,
SBU-Chief Radtschenko Volodimir Ivanovich, address:

Ukraine / Ukraina
01034
Kiev-34
vul. Volodimirska, 33
SBU
golova SBU Radtschenko Volodimir Ivanovich,
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Telephone: (044) 291 93 61
Telefax:     (044) 224-21-24
info@ssu.gov.ua

2. Prosecutor General Office of Ukraine,
Prosecutor General Piskun Svyatoslav Mikhaylovich, address:

Ukraine / Ukraina
01601
MSP, Kiev-11,
vul. Riznitska 13/15
Generalna Prokuratura Ukrainy
Piskun Svyatoslav Mikhaylovich,
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Telephone: (044) 291-27-01
Telefax:      (044) 290-26-03.

http://www.kmu.gov.ua
 portal@kmu.gov.ua

3. Сabinet of  Ukraine,
Prime minister Yanukovich Viktor Fedorovich, address:

Ukraine / Ukraina
01008
Kiev-8,
vul. Grushevskogo, 12/2
Kabinet Ministriv,
Yanukovich Viktor Fedorovich
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Telephone: (044) 226 32 63,
                   (044) 293 16 63
Telefax:      (044) 293 21 71
     http://www.kmu.gov.ua
     portal@kmu.gov.ua


4. MBS -  Ministry of the Interior of Ukraine (police),
Minister of the Interior Smirnov Yuri Aleksandrovich, address:

Ukraine  / Ukraina
01024
Kiev-24
vul. Bogomoltsa, 10,
MBS
Smirnov Yuri Aleksandrovich
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Telephone: (044) 291 36 85
Telefax:      (044) 291 37 78

5. President of Ukraine, address:

Ukraine  / Ukraina
01220
Kiev-220
vul. Bankova, 11,
President Ukrainy
Kuchma Leonid Danilovich
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Telephone: (044) 291 53 33.
      http://www.president.gov.ua/feedback/

     6. State Security Office of Ukraine - SBU in Odessa
     region, address:

Ukraine  / Ukraina
65026
Odessa-26,
vul. Evreyska, 43,
     Upravlinnya SBU Odeskoi oblasti
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     Telephone: (0482) 253 323

     7. State Security Office of  Ukraine - SBU in Nikolaev
     region, address:

     Ukraine  / Ukraina
     54001
     Nikolayev-001
     vul. Spasska, 40,
     Upravlinnya SBU Mikolaivskoi oblasti
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     Telephone: (0512) 352 045

8. Prosecutor Office of the Nikolaev Region,
Prosecutor of the Region Bondar Yuri Yefimovich, address:

     Ukraine  / Ukraina
54055
Nikolayev-055,
vul. Spaska, 28,
Prokuratura Mikolaivskoi oblasti,
Prokuror Bondar Yuri Yefimovich
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Telephone: (0512) 352 045

Prosecutor Office of the Odessa Region, address:

Ukraine  / Ukraina
65026
Odessa-026,
vul. Pushkinska, 3,
Prokuratura Odeskoi oblasti
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Telephone: (0482)220-518

10. The Supreme Rada (Parlament) of Ukraine,
Speaker Litvin Volodimir Mikhailovich, address:

Ukraine / Ukraina
01008
Kiev-008, vul.Grushevskogo, 5,
Verkhovna Rada Ukrainy
Litvin Volodimir Mikhailovich
Telephone: (044)254-08-90
http://www.rada.gov.ua

    11. Е-mail of the Supreme Court of Ukraine: supcourt@scourt.gov.ua

We suggest the following letter of protest:

[Addressee, address. Sender organization]

We strongly protest the SBU persecution of the young left activists arrested in the cities of Nikolaev and Odessa and blame forged action on "terrorism" brought against them. We protest against the tortures of the arrested in order to force them to make "confessions". We demand to put an end to the lawlessness and maltreatment of the arrested communists by the state security and the police. We declare that we will distribute the information on this violation of human rights by the state agencies of Ukraine in the mass media and international organizations.

We demand:

• release from jail of all the arrested - both the Ukranian and foreign citizens who are involved in this case, after they would sign the binding agreement, not to leave their place of residence;
• independent investigation of the actions of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in this case and in particular their treatment of the arrested;
• that the arrested young people- both the members of LKSM of Ukraine and all foreign citizens involved in this case-be interrogated only in the presence of independent lawyers;
• to allow public control over the investigation of this case.