The death has been announced in Moscow of human rights defender Yefrem Yankelevich who was for many years authorized representative and close associate of Andrei Sakharov
A Kyiv court has refused to declare a Cabinet of Ministers Resolution on court warrants for interception of communications unlawful, but has issued a separate judgment warning the Cabinet that the Resolution fails to safeguard vital rights
26.01.09
The measures being undertaken in Kharkiv leave little scope for questions, except maybe whether the authorities are oblivious or simply indifferent to the catastrophic results they are risking through their actions
25.01.09
No conclusions should be drawn without full police investigation which is now underway. On the other hand, the statement that the police still have no idea who commented this terrible crime yet are adamant it wasn’t skinheads raises more questions than it answers
The man detained on suspicion of killing Chechen political refugee Umar Israilov in Vienna has claimed that Chechen President Kadyrov has a hit list of several hundred people
22.01.09
KHPG is sounding the alarm over an extraordinary and highly dangerous reduction in anti-tuberculosis facilities in the city.
21.01.09
The series of killings of lawyers, journalists and civic activists over recent times in the capital and regions of Russia arouse the deepest concern (the appeal is open for endorsement)
20.01.09
On 20 January a court in St Petersburg allowed the claim brought by Memorial and ordered that all documents and items removed be returned. These include absolutely irreplaceable and vital information gathered over 20 years about the Soviet Terror
16.01.09
A criminal investigation is underway against two former Kharkiv police officers suspected of using torture during the interrogations of two women. The two men have been dismissed
16.01.09
The measure should go some way to countering the frightening decline of the book industry in Ukraine which is often compounded by local authorities eager to rent premises to commercial outlets
13.01.09 | Myroslav Marynovych
Reflections on the gratitude due Solzhenitsyn, on inevitable causes for reproach and on the issue of repentance and acknowledgement of the crime of communism
09.01.09 | Halya Coynash
The latest press report from the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ Public Liaison Centre pulls statistics out of context and seems more designed to foster harmful stereotypes than to provide information
06.01.09
4 January was the sixtieth birthday of Myroslav Marynovych, founding member of the Ukrainian Helsink Group and former political prisoner, human rights defender, philosopher, writer and Vice-Rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University
