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Free Yury Lutsenko!
22.05.2011
Instead of complying with the recent European Court of Human Rights instruction to rectify abuse of remand in custody, those in power are abusing it for their own political motives
Ukrainian intellectuals call on Strasbourg to defend Yury Lutsenko
21.05.2011
A number of prominent Ukrainian scholars, writers and academics have asked the European Court of Human Rights to examine as a matter of priority the continued remand in custody of former Minister of Internal Affairs and leader of the People’s Self-Defence Party, Yury Lutsenko.
View from abroad on discrepancy between the charges against Lutsenko and the punishment
20.05.2011
Oleksandr Motyl, Professor in Political Studies at Ratgers University (USA) believes that the prosecution of the former Minister of Internal Affairs, Yury Lutsenko shows that the present Ukrainian regime is repressive and incompetent
Kyiv Protesters put Demands to the Government
20.05.2011
Participants in the Spring Protest March on Thursday passed a resolution with demands regarding the simplified system of taxation, a ban on monitoring checks of small businesses, as well as an end to persecution of Tax Code protesters, real efforts against corruption etc
Ukrainian politicians put the squeeze on civil society
20.05.2011
The Soviet Union used to propagate the notion that dissidents were funded by Western intelligence agencies. Today, those same (now, post-Soviet) elites, push an updated version of this notion, by arguing that their opponents work with Western foundations and NGOs to foment democratic “revolutions.”
Yury Lutsenko says he will continue his hunger strike
19.05.2011
On Wednesday Iryna Lutsenko, wife of the former Minister of Internal Affairs and leader of the People’s Self-Defence Party reported that doctors have found that her husband is suffering from new complaints linked with his hunger strike, including an inflammation of the digestive track and duodenal ulcer
Concerns mounting for Yury Lutsenko, on hunger strike over politically motivated imprisonment
17.05.2011
In the last two days prominent figures including Lyubomir Huzar, former Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and Patriarch Filaret have called on the former Minister to abandon his hunger strike saying that he must not sacrifice his life
Lviv: Brush up your Russian and brush away stereotypes.
17.05.2011
In the wake of the disturbances on 9 May in Lviv which many believe to have been orchestrated, three journalists decided to investigate whether Lviv residents are “anti-Russian” in a delightfully ingenious fashion
British official: Ukraine has to improve its court system
17.05.2011
The problem of selective use of laws in Ukraine has to be eliminated, the Chairman of the UK All Party Parliamentary Ukraine Group John Whittingdale has said. "Laws have to be equally applied to everyone"
Lviv provocation on 9 May: No joking matter
16.05.2011
Basically nobody believes that the shameful displays of violence between pro-Russian and marginalized groups like “Russian Unity” and the rightwing nationalists organization Svoboda “just happened”, nor that they could have taken place without at least a blind up, more likely connivance from above
Yury Lutsenko: I am defending myself with what little I have left
13.05.2011
Former Minister of Internal Affairs, Yury Lutsenko believes that his three-week-long hunger strike has not gone unnoticed by those in power. He is convinced that in leaving him in custody they are simply settling score
Amnesty International calls 2010 a watershed year
13.05.2011
While the term is in some ways used positively, “In a worrying new trend, the picture darkened in Ukraine for human rights defenders. They were physically attacked, and faced harassment from law enforcement officers, in connection with their legitimate human rights work”
Rivne journalists declare hunger strike in Strasbourg in support of Yury Lutsenko
12.05.2011
Serhiy Shturkhetsky, , Rivne journalist, head of the Rivne Independent Trade Union and Deputy of the Regional Council says that tomorrow he will be joined by three other journalists from Rivne and that they are supported by the French Ukrainian Diaspora
MEPs express concern over human rights situation in Ukraine
12.05.2011
British MEP Charles Tannock says that one has the mpression that Ukraine’s judiciary has “begun a witch hunt “against political opponents
Parliament will hear report from the Prosecutor General’s Office on Yury Lutsenko’s detention
12.05.2011
Following the walkout yesterday by members of the opposition over the refusal to hear the Prosecutor General and Human Rights Ombudsperson regarding Yury Lutsenko’s detention and hunger strike, the motion was again put to the Verkhovna Rada
Doctors: Lutsenko’s state one of medium severity
12.05.2011
Despite a clear deterioration in the state of health of the former Minister of Internal Affairs who has been on hunger strike since 22 April, the investigator did not permit Iryna Lutsenko to visit her husband on Wednesday
Unidentified guards use force to push press away from Yury Lutsenko’s ward
12.05.2011
The guards stationed outside the ward of former Minister of Internal Affairs and leader of the People’s Self-Defence Party have used force to push journalists out of the premises. They also refused to allow two National Deputies to visit Yury Lutsenko.
Former Minister of Internal Affairs and opposition politician Yury Lutsenko moved to hospital
11.05.2011
Former Minister of Internal Affairs, Yury Lutsenko’s party, People’s Self-Defence, reports that Lutsenko was moved to hospital yesterday with his lawyers and family learning about this from the press
Human Rights Ombudsperson calls for Yury Lutsenko’s release from custody
11.05.2011
Nina Karpachova has written to the Prosecutor General expressing concern that the decision to extend the former Minister of Internal Affairs and political leaders remand in custody was unwarranted and an infringement of his right to liberty and personal security
Lutsenko moved to SIZO medical unit
10.05.2011
Yury Lutsenko, former Minister of Internal Affairs in Yulia Tymoshenko’s government and leader of the People’s Self-Defence Party, has been on hunger strike since 23 April in protest at the decision to remand him in custody for yet another month
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