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• Topics / Against torture and ill-treatment
Dont say you didnt know
27.06.2008
The Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union is sending the Prosecutor General a list of people who have been tortured in police stations
How widespread is the use of torture and ill-treatment in Ukraine?
26.06.2008
The first problem is finding out. The State Department for the Execution of Sentences is extremely secretive and normally denies reports of torture and ill-treatment
Against torture
26.06.2008
26 June 2006 is International Day in Support of Victims of Torture and events are taking place throughout the day in Ukraine to highlight the problem of torture by law enforcement officers and in penal institutions
Conflicting interests
24.04.2008
I would ask Yury Lutsenko and all those calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty to just type in the following words on Google: DNA, wrongful, prison. Or try torture and confession. Youll read enough arguments to last a lifetime
Next stop Strasbourg
21.03.2008
Torture in Ukraine can be considered a legitimate means of gaining a confession if one considers the judgment handed down on this week by the Supreme Court in the case of Motsny and Nechyporuk
Five confessions are fine
18.03.2008
The Ternopil Regional Court of Appeal considers five confessions to be normal. Lets see what the Supreme Court has to say. The Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union hopes that journalists and the public in general will cast their gaze on a case which is truly unprecedented
The Thing in itself
27.02.2008
Different sides presented their view of the penal system in Ukraine to one of the only journalists who perceived the public need for information about the spectacle which took place at – and outside – a press conference on 22 February
Police captain sentenced over killing
13.02.2008
In the Crimea a police captain convicted of killing a man during the “detective enquiry” has been sentenced to eight and a half years imprisonment
Ukraines reports to the UN Committee against Torture must be public
19.12.2007
Among the main problems of the Ukrainian legal system in KHPGs view are the use of confessions as grounds for convictions, cases of arbitrary deprivation of liberty and impunity of those guilty of torture
Family of wrongfully convicted mother awarded 2 million UAH
16.11.2007
Svitlana Zaitseva died of tuberculosis contracted while imprisoned for a murder she did not commit. She had “confessed” to the crime during the criminal investigation, apparently under duress
Open letter from KHPG to the Head of the State Department for the Execution of Sentences
09.11.2007
To avoid any suggestion here or in Strasbourg that witnesses of the violent events at the Izyaslav Penal Colony in January could be subjected to unreasonable disciplinary measures, KHPG will be providing all those involved with free legal aid
Project aimed at preventing police torture
06.11.2007
People who have been subjected to physical or psychological coercion by law enforcement officers will now be able to receive legal aid within a joint programme being run by the European Commission and civic organizations.
Brutal beating of prisoners in the Izyaslav Penal Colony №31 (Preliminary analysis)
29.07.2007
An attempt to establish what did actually happen in the Izyaslav Penal Colony and a reminder to the State Department for the Execution of Sentences that the days when they could conceal such outrages have passed
Prosecutor General again looks the wrong way over the likely beating of prisoners
11.07.2007
Yes, there was a special purpose unit brought into the Buchansk Penal Colony, supposedly because the penal administration couldnt carry out a search themselves, however the Prosecutor General was unable to find any violence or incorrect behaviour
Torture continues in Ukraines prisons
27.06.2007
Beatings and torture are everyday in Ukrainian prisons, and the public have little way of finding out what is happening. Recent events in the Izyaslav Penal Colony No. 31 where an attempted hunger strike resulted in reprisals against the prisoners is just one disturbing example
26 June is International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
26.06.2007
At a press conference held by KHPG and La Strada – Ukraine on Monday, particular attention was given to the appalling use of specially trained units in penal institutions, as well as the intransigence of the Department for the Execution of Sentences
Support for its victims means putting an end to torture
22.06.2007
On Monday 25 June, on the eve of International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, a joint press conference organized by the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group and the International Womens Rights Centre “La Strada – Ukraine” will discuss the use of torture by officials in Ukraine
Council of Europe Anti-Torture Committee publishes report on Ukraine
21.06.2007
On 21 June the Council of Europes Committee for the Prevention of Torture published its report on its visit to Ukraine in 2005, together with the response of the Ukrainian Government
Torture and Police Violence in Ukraine Must End
21.06.2007
At a recent meeting the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights and the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union drew attention to the long-standing human rights problems of torture, ill-treatment, and police violence in Ukraine
Does the public have any control in Ukraine?
14.06.2007
The author considers how much real control the public have over what goes on in penal institutions. He points to obvious failings and clear reluctance on the part of the State Department for the Execution of Sentences to cooperate with civic society. He presents serious proposals and invites wide discussion.
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