Former Crimean deputy detained

 KYIV – Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) has detained a former member of the Crimean parliament wanted by Kyiv on suspicion of treason. Markian Lubkivskyi, an adviser to the SBU chief, wrote on Facebook on April 28 that former Crimean lawmaker Vasyl Hanysh was detained at the Kalanchak checkpoint in the southern Kherson region near Russian-controlled Crimea. Mr. Lubkivskyi said Mr. Hanysh would be “transported in the nearest future to Kyiv, where investigators of the Procurator General’s Office are waiting for him.” The Procurator General’s Office is investigating several current and former lawmakers in Crimea on suspicion of helping Russia take over Crimea in March 2014 and violating the rights of the peninsula’s residents. Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine after sending troops there and staging a secession referendum that was declared illegal in an overwhelming vote in the UN General Assembly. (RFE/RL)