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Kuzmin strikes again
21.02.2013
The First Deputy Prosecutor General has stated that the Prosecutor’s Office has sufficient evidence to prove that former President Leonid Kucham was involved in the murder of journalist Georgy Gongadze
Lost in SIZO
13.02.2013
Why the case of three young men charged over a bomb blast in a Zaporizhya Church on 28 July 2010 warrants close scrutiny from all bodies fighting torture and concerned over problems with the justice system in Ukraine. I
Puppet Justice
07.02.2013
The latest court hearing in the case of the young men charged over the Zaporizhya Church bomb in July 2010 will take place on 7 February. As the text mentions, it will be without one of the defendants lawyers whom the presiding judge has removed from the case. This is only one of a very large number of grounds for concern
Who will answer for a shattered life?
06.02.2013
A Ukrainian court has yet again sentenced a man to life imprisonment without any proof that he committed the crime.
Against Television Justice
01.02.2013
Three young men, two former sacristans of the Church and the elder brother of one of them have effectively become hostages of a promise made to the President to solve a crime within the week
Primetime Justice: The Zaporizhya Church Bombing
01.02.2013
Three young men charged in connection with the 2010 explosion have been in detention without sentence for two and a half years. Their case is known in Ukraine as the “case of the sacristans” and urgently needs to be raised at the EU-Ukraine Summit precisely because its outcome is widely seen as being quite unrelated to the guilt or otherwise of the defendants.
No Duress? Telling Details in the Zaporizhya Church Bomb Case
01.02.2013
The case of three young men tried over the bomb which exploded in the Svyato-Prokovsk Church, Zaporizhya on 28 July 2010 continues to cause grave concern. The following gives some idea why
Gongadze Case: Pukach says Kuchma and Lytvyn should be on trial
30.01.2013
On Tuesday, former Police General Oleksy Pukach was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of journalist Georgy Gongadze. His final words to the court were that he would agree if Kuchma and Lytvyn were on trial with him. He had told everything, he said, but nobody in the court wanted to know
Pavlichenko petition goes on White House site
29.01.2013
Supporters of Dmytro Pavlichenko and his son Serhiy, convicted last year of the murder of a Kyiv judge, have set up a petition on the US White House site against their conviction and calling for the Magnitsky bill to be extended to Ukraine.
Problems with Translation: On defending the State coffers
25.01.2013
Donetsk Memorial’s efforts to find out about compensation for the huge amounts the State pays in implementation of European Court of Human Rights judgements
Tymoshenko case to be raised at EU-Ukraine Summit
25.01.2013
The EU Ambassador to Ukraine, Jan Tombiński has reiterated that there can be no progress in EU-Ukraine relations until the issue of selective justice is resolved
Who will oversee Ukraine’s implementation of ECHR judgements?
25.01.2013
Human rights groups have welcomed the idea of creating a body responsible for monitoring implementation of European Court of Human Rights judgements on Ukraine. They have doubts, however, that it will be possible to make such a body independent
Appeal hearing in controversial Pavlichenko case deferred
24.01.2013
The Kyiv Court of Appeal has postponed until 31 January hearing the appeal lodged by Dmytro Pavlichenko and his son Serhiy against their sentences (life, and 13 years, respectively) over the murder of a judge of the Shevchenkivsky District Court Serhiy Zubkov
Prosecutor accused of corruption over Olaolu Femi case
24.01.2013
The Postup Human Rights Centre says that on at least 5 occasions it has complained to the Prosecutor’s Office against police and Prosecutor’s Office infringements with regard to the case of Olaolu Femi, the Nigerian student held in custody since November 2011 after defending himself against 5 racist assailants
Strasbourg ruling on Supreme Court judge may not be enforced
22.01.2013
Ukraine’s Justice Minister, Oleksander Lavrynovych has said that Ukraine may not reinstate Oleksander Volkov to his post as Supreme Court Judge as ordered by the European Court of Human Rights
Let’s see if this one sticks?
21.01.2013
Murder charges against imprisoned former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko are likely to be viewed with the same scepticism in the West as previous prosecutions. But then western TV channels aren’t so very helpful in covering such stories
One month under the new Criminal Procedure Code
17.01.2013
Arkady Bushchenko, Defence lawyer and Executive Director of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union discusses positive features of the new Criminal Procedure Code as well as fears of retrograde steps by those who dislike its progressive ideology
ECHR Judge: Laws “passed” with absentee MPs’ cards may be revoked in Strasbourg
12.01.2013
The Strasbourg judgement reported this week means that laws adopted using other MPs’ cards can be revoked since they constitute a clear violation of Ukraine’s Constitution
Grave concerns over Dnipropetrovsk bombing trial
10.01.2013
Dmytro Reva, one of the men charged in connection with the Dnipropetrovsk bombs in April 2012 says that the police applied torture and psychological pressure.
Strasbourg finds dismissal of Supreme Court Judge unfair
10.01.2013
In an extremely important judgement*, the European Court of Human Rights has found that Ukraine violated the rights of a Supreme Court Judge dismissed in 2010 by the High Court of Justice “for infringement of oath in 2010 and has ordered his reinstatement
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