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• Topics / Against torture and ill-treatment
Remand prisoner who alleged torture commits suicide in Kharkiv SIZO
13.05.2011
Serhiy Lytvyn had previously alleged that he had been tortured on a number of occasions both in the Kharkiv Department for Fighting Organized Crime [UBOZ] where he was taken for questioning and in the SIZO
Ukrainians more often tortured in police custody and prisons
13.05.2011
Human rights activists and the relatives of victims assert that incidents of torture in prisons, SIZO [pre-trial detention centres] and police custody are becoming more common and the number of deaths there has doubled in the last year
Treatment and handcuffs are incompatible
28.04.2011
The inhuman treatment of former Dean of the Kryvy Rih Technical University, Anatoly Temchenko is continuing
Ukraine guilty of torture and unlawful detention of Ivan Nechiporuk
22.04.2011
On 21 April 2011 the European Court of Human Rights found, among others, violation of the prohibition against torture on account Ivan Nechniporuk’s having been tortured and of the lack of an effective investigation into his complaints in that respect;
Tortured for damaging a bust of Stalin
19.04.2011
Members of the nationalist organization Tryzub who are charged with cutting off the head of the monument to Stalin on Zaporizhya Communist Party land claim that while in the SIZO [remand unit] they were tortured and isolated from lawyers and their relatives
Prosecutor denies that Ihor Indylo was killed, just “inadequately watched over”
19.04.2011
The Kyiv Prosecutor’s Office has officially completed its investigation into the death of Ihor Indylo and is handing the case to the court. Two police officers are charged, but not with Ihor’s death
When the criminal investigation is tantamount to torture
15.04.2011
Holding 70-year-old Anatoly Temchenko who is in very poor health in a SIZO [pre-trial detention centre] cannot be described as anything less than torture, human rights activist, Andriy Didenko says
Case over Death in Police Custody of Ihor Indylo returned for further investigation
14.04.2011
According to lawyer Oleksandr Zarutsky, who is representing Ihor Indylo’s family, the relevant decision was issued by the Desnyansky District Court in Kyiv on Wednesday
Protest in Kharkiv against police violence
08.04.2011
On Thursday 7 April a picket organized by the Kharkiv Human Rights Group took place outside the Kharkiv Regional Police Department
Another death following a visit to the police station
01.04.2011
The Kharkiv Prosecutor Yevhen Popovych has reported that a Kharkiv resident has died in hospital after being at a regional police station
Number of deaths in police custody triples
31.03.2011
The Kharkiv Human Rights Group has given a press conference on the use of torture by police and the worrying increase in deaths of detainees
Court trial for allegations of torture?
27.03.2011
Yakov Strogan is facing charges of attempted murder which were laid almost 4 months after the incident in question and consistent allegations by Strogan, supported by human rights defenders, of torture and gross misconduct by police officers
No to Impunity: Hope emerges in the Rafalsky Case
25.03.2011
Alexander Rafalsky is serving a life sentence after being arrested in 2001 and allegedly subjected to torture on a number of occasions in unsuccessful attempts to get him to sign a confession. The Supreme Court has found unlawful the initial refusal by the Prosecutor to initiate a criminal investigation.
Death in police custody – what needs to be done?
24.03.2011
Andriy Chernousov from the Kharkiv Social Research Institute looks at the disturbing statistics for deaths in police custody and at the failings in the present system for investigating the circumstances in each such case
Lutsk woman threatens to take police to court over being forced to lie
21.03.2011
Lutsk resident, Tetyana Zhuchaeva, who was wrongly suspected of stealing money alleges that police officers held her in custody for a day and a half, and used rough means and psychological pressure to force a confession from her
A Threat to each and every one of us
11.02.2011
In his article under the above title, Volodymyr Batsunov writes of the widespread use by Ukrainian police of violence and worrying increase in the number of deaths in police custody
KHPG Open Letter to the President
02.02.2011
Over disturbing human rights abuse by the police and cause for concern over two deaths at the Losiv Police Station in the Kharkiv region
What’s the point of a Prosecutor who doesn’t want to defend us from torturers?
01.02.2011
The Prosecutor sees no grounds for initiating criminal proceedings against the police officer who allegedly tortured Yakov Strogan.
European Court awards Lviv victim of police torture 10 thousand Euros in compensation
23.12.2010
In the сase of Samardak v. Ukraine, Ukraine was found to have violated Article 3 of the European Convention due both to he inhuman and degrading treatment the applicant had suffered, and because of the ineffective investigation of his complaint of ill-treatment
Torture in Custody: the Police claim Strogan inflicted injuries himself
15.12.2010
A picket was held on Tuesday 14 December outside the Kharkiv Regional MIA Department to protest over the alleged torture by members of the police force of Yakov Strogan and others
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