UNIAN Archive Alexander Bashyuk, center, leader of the "Samostyina Ukrayina" Organization and organizer of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine Office (CC of CPU) seizure makes a declaration for press near the CC house on March 10, 2000. Since that time Bashuk has been escaping the arrest. He was seized by the Security service of Ukraine collaborators on August 7, 2000. On the same day Bashyuk, went the termless "dry" hunger-strike. On Wednesday, August 16, 2000 the Supporting Committee of Group "Samostyina Ukraina" (Independent Ukraine) conducted the picket of the Ukrainian General Prosecutor's Office and required to release Bashuk from custody. Pickets also require - to improve the conditions of the keeping in the places of imprisonment before trial, seizure of tortures of arrested persons, as well as consider the seized members of the ":Samostyina Ukrayina" to be politically repressed ones. Photo by UNIAN