![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nicoljausThe Committee of Concerned Scientists (CCS):
"We are writing today regarding the detention of Russian archaeologist Alexander Butyagin by Polish authorities. It was reported by the media that Poland is considering the request of the Ukrainian prosecutor to extradite Butyagin to Ukraine.
According to reports, Butyagin, the head of the Ancient World Department at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, was travelling through Europe with a series of lectures on archaeology when he was detained at a hotel in Warsaw. He has been accused by Ukraine of excavating archaeological sites in Crimea without obtaining a permit from Ukraine.
[...]
It is the strong conviction of this Committee, developed over its half-century work on behalf of persecuted scientists, that science must transcend national borders. Injecting territorial disputes into the work of a scientist is highly controversial. The state of war between Russia and Ukraine leaves little chance of a fair trial for Butyagin if he were extradited to Ukraine.
We respectfully ask that Butyagin be freed from detention and allowed to continue his science visits".
https://concernedscientists.org/2025/12/appeal-for-the-release-of-russian-archaeologist-aleksandr-butyagin-detained-in-poland/
"We are writing today regarding the detention of Russian archaeologist Alexander Butyagin by Polish authorities. It was reported by the media that Poland is considering the request of the Ukrainian prosecutor to extradite Butyagin to Ukraine.
According to reports, Butyagin, the head of the Ancient World Department at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, was travelling through Europe with a series of lectures on archaeology when he was detained at a hotel in Warsaw. He has been accused by Ukraine of excavating archaeological sites in Crimea without obtaining a permit from Ukraine.
[...]
It is the strong conviction of this Committee, developed over its half-century work on behalf of persecuted scientists, that science must transcend national borders. Injecting territorial disputes into the work of a scientist is highly controversial. The state of war between Russia and Ukraine leaves little chance of a fair trial for Butyagin if he were extradited to Ukraine.
We respectfully ask that Butyagin be freed from detention and allowed to continue his science visits".
https://concernedscientists.org/2025/12/appeal-for-the-release-of-russian-archaeologist-aleksandr-butyagin-detained-in-poland/
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2025-12-24 01:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-12-24 02:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-12-24 04:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-12-24 04:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-12-24 05:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-12-24 05:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-12-24 05:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-12-24 06:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-12-24 06:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-12-25 03:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-12-25 03:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-12-25 03:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-12-25 07:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-12-26 09:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-12-25 04:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-12-25 04:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-12-25 04:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-12-25 06:23 pm (UTC)