24.05.13 | LGBT Equality March banned in Kyiv
The District Administrative Court in Kyiv banned the march on application from the Kyiv City State Administration. The ban officially covers all but official events on 25 May, though clearly the target was the March for Equality.
23.05.13 | UHHRU On the events before and on 18 May
Throughout the country police and transport workers obstructed people trying to get to Kyiv for the Rise Ukraine opposition rally
23.05.13 | Halya Coynash / Whose circus, Mr Prime Minister?
The government can't get anything right. On Wednesday Prime Minister Azarov threw out women journalists trying through a totally peaceful protest to remind him that it could be his wife or daughter who gets attracked with the police watching on and doing nothing, as happened with their colleague Olha Snitsarchuk
23.05.13 | On attempts by the Kyiv authorities to ban the March for Equality on 25 May
The Coalition for Combating Discrimination in Ukraine has issued a statement regarding attempts by the Kyiv City State Administration [KCSA] to secure a court ban on any events in the centre of Kyiv on 25 May 2013
18.05.13 | Police detain Spilna Sprava civic activists
On Saturday afternoon Berkut riot police detained Oleksandr Danylyuk, the leader of Spilna Sprava [Common Cause] and four other activists from the movement.
15.05.13 | President's Administration pays rent to shadowy firm behind Mezhyhirya
During 2012 the President's Administration paid 100 thousand UAH to Tantalit - a firm believed to have links with the Yanukovych family - for renting an office for Viktor Yanukovych in the latter's sumptuous residence at Mezhyhirya.
10.05.13 | Fine over peaceful protest at Mezhyhirya revoked
Andriy Bohdanovych was fined over the same peaceful action for which Maxim Panov was jailed for 7 days.
23.04.13 | Halya Coynash / Speak for Yourself
When freedom of peaceful assembly is coming under increasing assault, solidarity among representatives of civic society is especially vital. Solidarity does not by any means exclude pluralism of views. Recent statements from one quarter have forced the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union to issue a statement making this clear.
23.04.13 | Why a law on peaceful assembly is needed
In his analysis, Volodymyr Yavorsky notes that bans on peaceful assembly are becoming ever more frequent and all-purpose, prohibiting any meetings in a particular place or timeframe. The need for legal regulation is clear. It is just as clearly missing at present
22.04.13 | Democratic Alliance: The President is scared of people altogether
Vasyl Hatsko, Head of the Democratic Alliance Party and Maxim Panov, head of the Kyiv branch, are now at liberty having been jailed as administrative arrest over entirely peaceful protests

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