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Trial begins over another death in police custody
16.11.2011
Three police officers are on trial following the death of Yevhen Zvenigorodsky, left to die on a city square after an hour (at least) in a neighbouring police station. One of the accused is charged under Article 121 (torture)
Court issues arrest warrant for Mykola Melnychenko
11.11.2011
Mykola Melnychenko became well-known because of the tapes he made while guard to President Leonid Kuchma, including conversations about journalist Georgy Gongadze shortly before his death by MIA officers
Key witness in trial over Ihor Indylo’s death in police custody clearly frightened
02.11.2011
Sashko Khomenko “doesn’t remember” most things and is clearly scared. Ihor Indylo’s parents both had conversations with the young man who had known Ihor most of his life, and say that he told them the truth about who caused Ihor’s death
How the anbulance doctor left Ihor Indylo to die
29.10.2011
More conflicting evidence in the examination into the death of Ihor Indylo, the young student who died of injuries he received in a Kyiv police cell in the earlier hours of what should have been his twentieth birthday
Police continue to deny any wrongdoing in death of Ihor Indylo
27.10.2011
At the court hearing on Wednesday, the former Head of the Shevchenkivsky Police Station insisted that there had been nothing improper in Ihor’s detention, that he had been treated properly and that he simply died after “falling”.
Torment continues for Ihor Indylo’s Parents
26.10.2011
Despite promises to Ihor Indylo’s mother that the whole truth would be uncovered about how her son died in police custody only hours after entering in perfectly good health, the Prosecutor is continuing to push a police version which seems at odds with the video footage we can all view
Prosecutor General criticizes Kyiv Prosecutor over leak of Indylo video footage
20.10.2011
As reported, Oleksandr Zarutsky, the lawyer representing Ihor Indylo’s family has repeatedly asked - unsuccessfully - for the case to receive further examination. He and the family believe that the police story does not tally with the video footage
Gongadze Lawyer: Pukach repeats learned phrases about uprisings and spies
07.10.2011
According to Valentina Telychenko, the lawyer representing Georgy’s widow, Myroslava Gongadze, during the interrogation, former MIA General Oleksy Pukach repeats phrases learned by heart and does not answer the prosecution’s questions
OSCE media freedom representative urges full transparency in Gongadze murder trial
07.10.2011
Dunja Mijatović said on Thursday that the Ukrainian and international media should have access to information about the ongoing trial related to the murder of Ukrainian journalist Georgiy Gongadze in 2000.
Video footage shows Ihor Indylo’s last hours
04.10.2011
CCTV footage shows student Ihor Indylo being brought into the Shevchenkivsky Police Station in May last year just hours before he died. He seems neither drunk, as the police have alleged, nor anything but a healthy young man who was to be turning 20 the next day
No apparent hurry to try Gongadze murder suspect
04.10.2011
The trial has once again been postponed, on less than convincing grounds, of former MIA General and Head of the Department of Intelligence and Foreign Surveillance, Oleksy Pukach who is facing charges over the murder of journalist Georgy Gongadze
Court decisions in Pukach case also hidden from the public
04.10.2011
Pechersky District Court decisions in the trial of Oleksy Pukach over the killing of Georgy Gongadze are not on open access. According to Ukrainian legislation only the protocols of court hearings into the Pukach case are classified as secret
Court renews examination of Ihor Indylo’s death
03.10.2011
Kyiv’s Desnyansky District Court resumed hearings into the death in custody of young student Ihor Indylo who died in May 2010 during the night of what should have been his 20th birthday. The new judge rejected the application from the Indylo family’s lawyer for additional investigation into the case
Georgy Gongadze remembered in Ukraine
17.09.2011
In Kharkiv the events marking the 11th anniversary of the journalist’s disappearance had particular immediacy given the events this week where three independent channels in Kharkiv – A/TVC, For a and ATN have had their broadcasting cut with no explanation
Myroslava Gongadze: “The Public should understand what criminals governed the country”
02.09.2011
The widow of murdered journalist Georgy Gongadze says that she will as a matter of principle be applying to the European Court of Human Rights over the fact that the trial of Oleksy Pukach is taking place behind closed doors
CPJ: Gongadze suspect admits to killing, implicates Kuchma
02.09.2011
The Committee to Protect Journalists has called for the trial of former General Oleksy Pukach to be open to all. "It is outrageous that the public cannot follow proceedings in a trial that could determine the future of press freedom in Ukraine"
Gongadze Lawyer: Pukach acts as though he feels protected
31.08.2011
The trial of Oleksy Pukach, former MIA Head of Intelligence continued on Tuesday behind closed doors. Valentina Telychenko says Pukach did not deny his role in the murder but tried to imply he was saving the country from alleged plans for a coup
AI: Justice not done’ in Ukrainian student death investigation
22.08.2011
An investigation into the death in custody of a Ukrainian student is seriously flawed, Amnesty International says after a court effectively cleared two police officers of responsibility for his death.
Gongadze murder: Material on Kravchenko returned to the Prosecutor General
19.08.2011
The lawyers representing Georgy Gongadze’s family had asked for the entire case to be returned since they “now effectively have Pukach accused of a motiveless crime which is, by definition, impossible. The motives should be established and proven”.
Court cancels investigation into death in police custody of Ihor Indylo
18.08.2011
The court rejected the application from Ihor’s parents for an additional forensic examination and to review the CCTV footage from the police station where Ihor Indylo died during the night of what should have been his twentieth birthday.
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