22.02.13 | Glimmers of hope: positive court rulings from 2012
An excellent initiative giving 'positive feedback' and a good example to others by noting those courts and judges whose rulings have upheld freedom of peaceful assembly, of expression, the rights to wheelchair access and others
20.02.13 | Another dangerous and baffling ruling from the High Administrative Court
With a decision to cancel two MPs' mandates having already raised eyebrows, the Court has effectively handed city authorities carte blanche to demand unreasonably long advance notice of planned peaceful protests. The move seems likely to strengthen the worrying encroachments on freedom of peaceful assembly
15.02.13 | Protesters outside President's Administration could face 15 day sentences
Seven activists protesting sentences over anti-Yanukovych images are charged with petty hooliganism, and some with resisting police officers
12.02.13 | 20 years on, and still waiting for a decent peaceful asssembly bill
A number of civic organizations are concerned that having passed a new law, the authorities will impose additional restrictions which will obstruct people from exercising their right to peaceful gatherings
23.01.13 | Sharp rise in number of bans on peaceful assembly in 2012
Since 2009 (the last year before the judicial reforms introduced by President Yanukovych) the number of applications to the courts for bans on peaceful assembly has tripled, with the number of bans in 2012 four and a half times higher.
13.01.13 | Peaceful demonstrations banned during Kozhara - Lavrov meeting
The Chernivtsi Regional Court of Appeal has issued a ban on any peaceful assembly on 13 January duriing a Ukrainian - Russian Interstate Commission meeting chaired by the Ukrainian and Russian Foreign Ministers
10.01.13 | Civic organization law and its critics
The new law which has just come into force considerably simplifies registration procedure, removes a number of artificial restrictions on NGOs and means that the organizations will no longer be subject to checks at any time
05.01.13 | No victims, no video footage - or so the police claim
Allegations of police brutality against people protesting against the controversial conviction of the Pavlichenko father and son for murder not investigated, the police department CCTV footage 'automatically deleted' ...
28.12.12 | Peaceful protest in support of imprisoned Nigerian student stopped
On 27 December peaceful protesters in Kyiv were prevented from holding a demonstration outside the Prosecutor General's Office in support of Olaola Femi, the Nigerian student in custody for over a year following a racist attack in which he tried to defend himself.
20.12.12 | HRW calls for investigation into attacks on LGBT protest
Human Rights Watch has called on Ukraine's government to condemn attacks on a peaceful protest in Kyiv on 8 December and to condemn homophobic speech, including from members of the VO Svoboda Party.

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