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• Topics / Against torture and ill-treatment
Police: “We don’t beat everybody”
29.07.2010
Human rights groups estimate that over half a million Ukrainians suffer some form or torture or ill-treatment by the police each year. The Ministry of Internal Affairs acknowledges that there is a problem, but does not accept that it is so widespread
Strasbourg Judgment over Iziaslav Colony Beatings
02.07.2010
In the case of Davydov and Others v. Ukraine, the Court found that there had been four violations of Article 3 of the Convention (prohibiting torture and ill-treatment); Article 8 § 1 (the right to respect for correspondence); Article 13 (the right to an effective remedy) and others
In Memory of Victims of Police Torture
25.06.2010
In Kyiv on Friday morning, outside the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a Wall of Remembrance was erected in memory of those tortured to death by police. The organizers call on the MIA management to support the creation of effective mechanisms of public control over investigations into cases involving torture and ill-treatment
Wall of Remembrance for Victims of Police Torture
25.06.2010
On Friday, 25 June, on the eve of International Day against Torture, a Wall of Remembrance will be erected outside the Ministry of Internal Affairs and 200 red carnations laid in memory of the number of victims of torture of whom human rights groups are aware.
Kyiv police officer wanted for allegedly beating a detainee to death
22.06.2010
Not surprisingly since it has taken two prosecutor’s offices two years to investigate the death, the suspect now needs to be caught
Police put pressure on witnesses regarding the death of a student in police custody
08.06.2010
Human rights organizations are demanding an open investigation into the death of student Ihor Indylo in a Kyiv police station and are sceptical of the measures thus far planned by the Ministry of Internal Affairs
Defend us from the defenders
02.06.2010
The reaction of the Minister of Internal Affairs to the wave of protest over the death in police custody of Ihor Indylo, a young student, is disturbingly inadequate especially given the real problems which the police must address
Protest in Kyiv over death of student in police custody
01.06.2010
Around 200 students and others held a demonstration outside the Shevchenkivsky Police Station demanding that those responsible for the death of a fellow student be brought to justice and for an end to the use of torture by the police
Strasbourg: Extradition to Tajikistan inadmissible because of the risk of torture
21.05.2010
On 20 May 2010 the European Court of Human Rights made public its Chamber Judgment in the case of Khaydarov v. Russia. It found that Russia had violated Articles 3, 5 § 1 and 5 § 4 of the European Convention and that extraditing the applicant to Tajikistan would violate the Convention
Yury Moseyenkov is at liberty, but at what a cost?
17.05.2010
Miracles, it seems, do happen and people who have criminal charges fabricated against them are sometimes released. Only who will give Yury Moseyenkov back the five years of court and investigation procrastination with almost three years spent in a SIZO [remand unit]?
Human rights defenders prevented the MIA from continuing its usual ways
06.05.2010
Yevhen Zakharov was asked by the newspaper “Commentaries” why he believed the Department for the Monitoring of Human Rights in the Work of the Police had been closed, and what the consequences might be
Human Rights in Ukraine: Chronic Ills and New Challenges
26.04.2010
Results of a study carried out by the Democratic Initiatives Foundation as part of their “Ukrainian Democratic Barometer” project both of public perception regarding their rights and of human rights organizations’ assessment of the situation in 2009
Strasbourg finds against Ukraine over ill-treatment of a prisoner
13.04.2010
On 8 April the Court published its judgment in the case of Lotarev vs. Ukraine, lodged in 2004 finding that there had been a violation of Article 3 of the Convention on Human Rights (prohibition of torture and ill-treatment).
5 Police Officers suspected of torture
02.04.2010
Five police officers from the Rozdilnya District Police Station in the Odessa region [oblast] have been arrested for allegedly torturing detainees
Electronic records in fighting torture
04.03.2010
The Kharkiv Institute for Social Research has developed an electronic registration terminal for those entering district police stations
On fighting torture and ill-treatment in the Kharkiv region
22.02.2010
In an interview, Yury Chumak, Human Rights Aide to the Minister of Internal Affairs, speaks of certain improvements in the Kharkiv region and ongoing issues which still need to be resolved
Law enforcement terror
10.02.2010
In the Sumy region relatives of people serving sentences for murder have decided to join forces for united battle against law enforcement officers, the prosecutor and courts who they say are more interested in getting a conviction than finding the real perpetrator
Six former police officers sentenced over the killing of a detainee
02.01.2010
The criminal investigation was initiated in October 2008 following the death of Serhiy Kuntsevsky who died on 2 October from a closed skull injury in the premises of the Chernihiv Regional UBOZ in Prytuky
New Internet site: “Against Torture”
28.12.2009
The Kharkiv Human Rights Group, in conjunction with the “Maidan” website, have developed a new Internet resource “Against Torture”.
Death of detainee in the Poltava region
08.12.2009
A 36-year-old man has died in the Poltavsky [Poltava] Raion Police Station after being detained on suspicion of stealing a scooter
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