Christos Giakoumopoulos, from the Council of Europe’s Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law stresses that it’s not enough to declare reforms or pass a law, efforts are needed to make sure they’re implemented

In a telling and very welcome development, the court found that the case against Oleksandr Bondarenko was based solely on a confession very likely tortured out of him and two pieces of probably falsified evidence

With Tymoshenko still imprisoned and EU patience wearing thin, you might have thought now was not the time to arrest another politician. Ukraine’s leaders would appear to have decided otherwise, for reasons which suggest some very strange manoeuvres

There is now a problem with systematic non-payment of compensation awarded by the ECHR, as well as the long-standing problem that Ukraine’s governments do nothing to resolve the systemic issues identified by such judgements

Despite clear indications that the judges were aware of the gravely flawed nature of the trial over the Zaporizhya church bomb blast, the appeal court has upheld the convictions. In a move of unprecedented cynicism, both courts have selectively “excluded” inconvenient confessions.

The Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union has responded to media reports of plans by parliament to introduce legislative changes which would make it possible to issue court verdicts in absentia

Acceptance that three young men are “doomed” and that nothing can be done to prevent 14 and 15 year prison sentences because of an order issued by Viktor Yanukovych back in July 2010 will indicate that it is not only politicians who have a problem with selective justice.

A draft bill proposing to strip parliament of the power to appoint judges for life, but give this right to the High Council of Justice and President, as well as life tenure for the Prosecutor General will not have the opposition’s support needed for a constitutional majority

Following an apparent attempt to intimidate the lawyer and sister of Dmytro Reva, one of the defendants in the controversial Dnipropetrovsk bomb trial, an activist from the civic organization GRAD has had a Molotov cocktail thrown at his door

Transitions Online: A presidential order, hasty arrests, retracted confessions, and disregarded alibis mar a murder trial in Ukraine.

A court has finally noticed irregularities in the trial of three young men over the 2010 bomb blast in the Zaporizhya Svyatopokrovsk Orthodox Church. One infringement was too staggering, in fact, to not notice

A gravely flawed trial is taking place now and the stakes for three young men, their families, and for Ukrainian justice could not be higher. Standing by and simply watching is surely another form of selective justice, and must not be an option.

To the Head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine. Jan Tombiński regarding the direct threat to the development of rule of law in Ukraine of a criminal case widely seen as being dependent on promises issued publicly to President Yanukovych

In Ukraine a professor is facing a possible 15-year-sentence for treason and spying for China, charged over information posted on the Internet. Forget Snowden, Manning or Assange, this is Ukraine where even spying gets turned on its head

Yury Lukanov has investigated a notorious case in which one man – Ivan Nechiporuk - was released after 8 years only after the case when to the European Court of Human Rights and where his supposed accomplice remains in prison

The system introduced by the revised Criminal Procedure Code is very far removed from a normal jury system and any advantages still to be seen

The car of Dmytro Reva’s lawyer and sister, Oksana Tomchuk, was broken into during the early hours of Friday morning. The car window was smashed, and documents pertaining to the defence’s case stolen.

The text below has been sent to EU officials, MEPs and others regarding a case where the prosecutor’s claims cannot conceal the lack of evidence, and with respect to one defendant, the lack of any elements of a crime in the charges

Ukraine has yet to enforce the vital European Court of Human Rights judgement from January 2013 which found numerous violations in the dismissal of Supreme Court judge Oleksandr Volkov

In Ukraine, there are currently more that 1800 prisoners serving a life sentence. In a number of cases their sentences arouse serious doubts