Krasny Luch dwellers, who wanted to take part in the protest hunger-strike in Lugansk, were not let out from the town.

On 5 February 2004 the Severodonetsk town court rejected the request of the town mayor about the prohibition of a public meeting. Yet, the meeting was planned to be conducted as early as in August of 2003, but it did not take place because of the court prohibition.

The Crimean branch of the Voters’ Committee of Ukraine summed up the results of realization of the program and drew the conclusion that the majority of the subjects of political process inertly reacted to the requests of voters and public organizations representing the interests of citizens.

On 17 February the Kharkov group for human rights protection conducted the regular meeting of the working group in charge of the questions of the freedom of expression. The round table “Access to information in Ukraine. Improvement of legislation and practices” was held in the framework of the meeting.

The information appeared on the site that the materials of the monitoring of budget-2003 had been temporary deleted in the connection with revision of the renewed strategy of representing the materials

This decision was approved by the new administration of the TV and radio organization “Dovira” headed by Sergiy Kichigin, who has become recently the general producer of this organization.

The Appeal court of the Crimea satisfied the claim on the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation handed by Mykola Kotliarevskiy, a deputy of the Supreme Council of the Crimea, against the editorial board of the newspaper “Evpatoriyskaya nedelia” and its editor Volodymir Lutyev.

The Rubezhnoe town court refused to satisfy the claim of Konstantin Koziuberda, the leader of the town organization of the PSPU, against the newspapers “Rubizhanski novyny” and “Vestnik krasitelia”.

). Leonid Shtekel, the editor-in-chief of the independent Odessa newspaper “Pravoe delo”, was threatened by an unknown woman.

The training was held on 7-8 February in the framework of the project “Campaign against torture and cruel treatment in Ukraine”.

MP Oleksandr Turchinov directed the deputy’s request to General Prosecutor of Ukraine Gennadiy Vasylyev and USS head Igor Smeshko about the application of torture to the members of Komsomol organization of Odessa

The goal of the conference was to tell about the project “The campaign against torture and cruel treatment in Ukraine”, to inform the public about the activities of the entire network during the period of report and to give the opportunity to journalists to communicate with relatives of the victims of cruel treatment.

Militiamen of the Slavianoserbsk district precinct of the Lugansk oblast illegally detained and tortured two minors. Now the boys are staying in a hospital and the law-enforcers are doing their best to dodge the responsibility.