The court in the trial of four men charged over the bomb blasts in April 2012 has refused to call a Regions Party MP as witness despite indications that his evidence might have bearing on the case

The committee should establish, among other things, “what role certain SBU officials played during the falsifications and in whose interests”.

The court could not understand why the three forensic psychologists, two of whom found that the defendants had been placed under serious pressure while the last called by the judge found only “inclination to crime” had not been summoned to explain the divergence of views

Yet another absurd but indicative irregularity in the seemingly unending barrage of infringements raising serious concerns over the trial of four men accused of the Dnipropetrovsk bomb blasts in April 2012

Ths case involves no politicians, no celebrities, but is widely known. It is generally assumed that all three young men are innocent but that no Ukrainian court will acquit them. Attendance in court on 28 August by Human Rights Ombudsperson Valeria Lutkovska, representatives of foreign embassies in Ukraine and EU structures, Amnesty International and the media would give a vital signal.

In terrorism the Ukrainian way, it is the Security Services who inform the media that they are about to receive a ransom letter. If this seems upside down to the reader, it should. The details in the trial over bomb blasts in Dnipropetrovsk in April 2012 raise the gravest doubts about the case.

"When we have dozens of wrongful court orders banning peaceful assembly, dozens of sentences against political opponents, when criminal cases are initiated and then the courts simply stamp verdicts, what sort of success is that”

The court has shown itself to be extremely selective in the witnesses it sees the need to question and is refusing to call a person who received a message similar to that which in Dmytro Reva’s case is claimed to incriminate him

Not only has the case against Dmytro Reva involved fabricated evidence and a defamatory film on State-controlled television, but it now transpires that vital evidence in the Dnipropetrovsk bomb trial has “disappeared”

The Prosecutor’s Office is showing reluctance to allow witnesses to be called. Dmytro Reva’s lawyers believe that the prosecution is worried that the witnesses will expose the shocking gaps in the case, in particular deception aimed at concealing the lack of any evidence whatsoever

Almost exactly a week after Dmytro (Dima) Groysman died of a heart attack, aged only 41, a court in Vinnytsa has found no elements of a crime in the last remnant of a criminal prosecution which had been hanging over him for almost 3 years

With the verdict due on 12 August in the widely condemned criminal prosecution of Dmytro Groysman, an appeal has been launched demanding withdrawal of all charges, a public apology and prosecution of those responsible for a gravely flawed case. The appeal is especially poignant since the verdict is due exactly one week after the prominent human rights activist died of a heart attack after almost three years of senseless criminal proceedings permanently hanging over him.

A Dnipropetrovsk court has found unlawful the Deputy Prosecutor’s failure to record allegations made of violations from Andriy Kalytka, who is serving a 12 years imprisonment, his family and lawyer

The UN Human Rights Committee has called for proper members against torture or ill-treatment by the police, and to protect judges’ independence. It expresses concern over reports of politically motivated trials, in particular, that of Yulia Tymoshenko

The father and son were sentenced to life and 13 years imprisonment respectively accused of killing a judge. The sentences led to a mass campaign in their defence by fellow football fans. Concern over the case is felt by others as well

Viktor Sukachev is protesting over the continued detention of Dmitry Reva and Lev Prosvirnin, as well as infringements of the Criminal Procedure Code in the trial over four bomb blasts in Dnipropetrovsk in April 2012

The acquittal has just come into force of 25-year-old Serhiy Tolsky from Donetsk who spent two and a half years in prison for the murder of a man he didn’t even know

One of the main defendants in the trial over the bombs in Dnipropetrovsk shortly before Euro 2012 is on hunger strike in protest at the ongoing detention of Dmitry Reva despite lack of eivdence, the testimony of the two main defendants and absence of anything criminal in the charges against him

The government is dragging its feet on compensation payments which the European Court of Human Rights has ordered it to pay. A number of people who won cases in Strasbourg have still not seen the money awarded them.

Andriy Didenko writes that out of the over 1800 life prisoners in Ukraine, there are doubts as to the convictions altogether or the severity of the sentence in some 180 cases