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• Topics / Against torture and ill-treatment
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
Scene of the Crime: Police Stations
24.10.2011
There are plans to reinstate public human councils dissolved by the present MIA management. Experts from the Association of Ukrainian Monitors of Human Rights Observance by the Police are convinced that public monitoring of police activities is vital in protecting citizens from police lawlessness.
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
Constitutional Court prohibits detention for resisting police
15.10.2011
The Constitutional Court has restricted the period a person can be held in custody without a court order to three days and stated that the police do not have the right to detain people for disobeying their orders
“Ukrainian Guantanamo” that doesn’t exist. De jure
14.10.2011
Despite being declared illegal in early 2008, there is all too much evidence that the notorious "special units" or anti-terrorist units used to intimidate and ill-treat prisoners
Ukraine must act to deal with endemic police criminality
13.10.2011
The Ukrainian authorities must act immediately to deal with endemic police criminality, Amnesty International wrutes in a new report that reveals widespread torture, extortion, and arbitrary detention
UHHRU: The MIA must be demilitarized and under public scrutiny
08.10.2011
Higher salaries and better conditions, without real reform will mean only that detainees are tortured or beaten in newly-painted premises, Volodymyr Yavorsky, Executive Director of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union warns
Healthcare for Remand Prisoners should be under the Health Ministry
07.10.2011
Human rights stress the need for a range of measures to ensure that prisoners receive proper medical care, including removing medical staff from under the jurisdiction of the State Penitentiary Service and making changes to the Penal Code and the Law on Pre-Trial Detention;
Police Officers detained after Death in Loziv Police Station
05.10.2011
The Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office has detained 2 officers from the Loziv Police Station on suspicion of “professional negligence causing death”. This follows the death of a Loziv resident Laslo Kolomparov who supposedly fell from a police station window
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
Patients in detention must receive medical care!
04.10.2011
Measures are planned on 6 October to highlight the grave situation in Ukrainian SIZO [pre-trial detention centres] where people with illnesses, sometimes very serious, are not given proper treatment or moved to the appropriate hospitals
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
Yellow Card for Ukraine’s Police: Second Warning
07.09.2011
On 8 September civic activists throughout the country will take part in measures aimed at ensuring that young people know their rights when in contact with the police and drawing the attention of both the public and MIA management to the issue of human rights observance by police officers
Crimea: Three police officers convicted of torture
02.09.2011
The Crimean Prosecutor’s Office informs that a district court has convicted three Bakhchysarai anti-drugs officers of exceeding their official duties and torture
Lawyers’ Statement regarding Police treatment of Defence Lawyer D. Karpenko
01.09.2011
As Ukrainian lawyers, we are outraged by the fact that the Cherkasy police, instead of defending the law, acted in flagrant breach of it with respect to our colleague, Dmitry Karpenko, subjecting him to quite unacceptable treatment.
Philosophy of Disrespect
31.08.2011
In his article, Volodymyr Batchaev demonstrates how, despite words about fighting torture and ill-treatment by police, the Prosecutor General’s Office shows no sign of wishing to cooperate with NGOS and change entrenched behaviour indicating profound disrespect for the public
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.
Police and Human Rights: Priorities grapple with Indicators
18.08.2011
In a damning analysis, , Vladimir Batchaev writes that “Indicators in fighting crime at any cost” has become the slogan of every head of a police department. This leads to unlawful detentions; confessions being beaten out of people; falsification of documents and other forms of police crime.
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