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• Topics / Against torture and ill-treatment
National mechanisms for safeguarding human rights in Ukraine
06.07.2006
A lecture given in Kharkiv on 24 June 2006 about the challenge to create national mechanisms in the light of the Optional Protocol on the Convention against Torture (OPCAT)
Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group present the results of a 3-year program “Campaign against Torture and Ill-treatment in Ukraine”
01.07.2006
KhPG marked 26 June - International Day in Support of Victims of Torture - by holding a press conference to present results and tasks for the future
Prisoners rights and countering torture: does the situation in Ukraine comply with civilized standards?
27.06.2006
Yevhen Zakharov and Arkady Bushchenko discuss progress and changes still needed to eradicate the use of torture
Paid torture in a special detention centre
27.06.2006
Yet one more disturbingly squalid example of lawlessness among precisely those state bodies whose role it is to defend the law
KHPG Press Conference on 26 June: AGAINST TORTURE
23.06.2006
The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group invites all those who want to make torture in Ukraine a thing of the past to a Press Conference in Kyiv on Monday, 26 June, International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
Radio Svoboda: Observance of human rights in Ukrainian penal institutions
16.05.2006
An interview with KHPG legal expert and lawyer, Arkady Bushchenko and journalist Volodymyr Boiko
Prisoner protest actions in Ukraine against cruel treatment from penal administrations
16.05.2006
Information reaching KHPG suggest the authorities are attempting to downplay the recent cases of inmates resorting to acts of self-injury in order to draw attention to their plight
Open letter regarding conditions in Ukrainian penal institutions
12.05.2006
The author refers to a letter he has received from the State Penal Department regarding his appeals on behalf of prisoners.
Corruption and sadism in the Chernihiv police and the inaction of the local prosecutors office
27.01.2006
An impassioned plea from residents of Chernihiv to ensure that a sadistic police officer is brought to justice
Two more murders
27.01.2006
Two tragic instances where those detained died at the hands of law enforcement officers.
Mykhailo Koval: «I will not give up!»
22.11.2005
On 27 September 2005 in Kyiv “Amnesty International” presented its report “Ukraine. The time to act: Torture and cruel treatment of people detained by the police”. It speaks of an alarming situation as regards the observance of the rights of those detained by the Ukrainian police and gives details of various incidences where torture has been applied. One such case involved Mykhailo Koval from Chernihiv.
Chernihiv: verdict in the case Ovsiyenko vs. two police officers
16.11.2005
On 2 November the Novozavodsk district court of Chernihiv passed its verdict on the claim of Volodymyr Ovsienko against two former district police officers. The interests of the claimant were represented by Oleksandr Trofimov, a lawyer of the Chernihiv Civic Committee for the Protection of Human Rights.
Head of the Chernihiv police has taken pensioner, Mykhailo Koval and the TV company “NTN” to court
14.11.2005
While ill-treatment continues, the State wastes money
11.11.2005
The Chamber of Accounting of Ukraine has found that State funding on penal institutions and implementing the 2004 reforms is being used unsystematically and often not for the purposes intended.
“Great-small” victory of human dignity
04.11.2005
A common citizen, without any lawyer has succeeded in gaining court consideration of his case: his police torturers have been punished.
The Prosecutors office has submitted charges involving the use of torture by police officers to the court
02.11.2005
The Prosecutors office of the Zhytomyr region has investigated and passed on to the court criminal charges against eight officers of the law enforcement bodies.
Pilgrimage for justice
14.09.2005
A 20-year-old boy, an invalid of the first group, was regularly beaten in the Kherson regional psychiatric hospital. The boy has died, and his mother is still striving for justice.
Ukraine will pay for Kharkiv militiamen
10.06.2005
The European Court obliged Ukraine to pay compensation to a Ukrainian citizen beaten by militia officers five years ago.
Brief results of the poll carried out by the Kharkiv institute of social research in the framework of the project “Campaign against torture and cruel treatment during the pre-trial investigation in Ukraine”
28.04.2005
The poll showed that the practice of illegal application of violence is quite common in the activities of Ukrainian militia...
Seminars for law-enforcers
26.10.2004
During the period from 13 June to 23 June the Kharkov group for human rights protection held a series of seminars for law-enforcers of the Zaporozhye, Kherson, Nikolayev and Kirovograd oblasts. The seminars were conducted in the framework of the project “Campaign against torture and cruel treatment in Ukraine”.
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