The District Administrative Court in Donetsk has banned the protest actions by Chernobyl Clean-up Workers who are incensed over plans by the government to cut benefits. The City Council claims this is over "threats of a terrorist act"

On the seventh anniversary of the Orange Revolution, a demonstration was held outside the Lukyanivsk SIZO [detention centre] where two of the leaders of the Orange Revolution - Yulia Tymoshenko and Yury Lutsenko – are being held, and, in spite of a court ban, around two thousand people gathered on Independence Square

On the eve of 22 November, the anniversary of the Orange Revolution, Maidan Nezalezhnosti [Independence Square] has been completely cordoned off from the metro exit. There are also extra police units, and two cars with Berkut riot police, and several patrol cars.

The Kyiv Police justified their call for a ban jnot only on the “high likelihood of confrontation” between different organizations, but also conflict between those gathered and police units “which could lead to a sharp escalation of the political situation”.

The Odessa District Administrative Court on Wednesday banned peaceful protests by at least three organizations planned for 17 November near the airport where President Yanukovych was expected

Signatures are being gathered for an appeal to the Verkhovna Rada and President in defence of the right to peaceful protest, with repressive measures on the increase against demonstrators and the draft law tabled in parliament proposing restrictions on peaceful assembly

For the last month and a half Serhiy Kostakov, his wife and neighbours have been constantly aware of people watching them near the building. He has made the enclosed statement to the Prosecutor and police in the not unfounded fear that some new provocation is planned

Over the last year there has been a significant increase in the number of court rulings prohibiting peaceful protests, while in Kyiv courts have begun allowing ALL applications from the Kyiv City State Administration to ban gatherings

One journalist, Valery Kucheruk, correspondent for Kommersant Ukraine, has lodged a complaint and is demanding that the Prosecutor General initiate a criminal investigation over riot police behaviour while journalists were covering the protests in Kyiv

Two thousand took part in a demonstration calling for parliament’s dissolution on 3 November. In Donetsk there were 3 thousand, the largest demonstration in recent times

It is a bad sign that the only logical decision by the courts should be surprising, however Thursday’s decision by a judge to release Vasyl Gruzynov on a signed undertaking not to abscond came as a welcome surprise

Participants in the protests against the new Tax Code last autumn are calling on the Verkhovna Rada to revoke several norms in the Criminal Procedure which make it possible for the police to hold people without court order for over 72 hours

There were protests on Sunday outside the Kyiv police temporary holding unit where Vitaly Gruzynov has been held for four days without a court order. He is one of 7 activists accused of damaging the granite stone on Kyiv’s Independence Square during the peaceful protest by small business owners against the new Tax Code

The many problems not addressed include the lack of clear definition of “malicious disobedience” which the police can therefore use as they choose, and the practice of avoiding formal processing of detention, leaving a person without any protection

The Constitutional Court has restricted the period a person can be held in custody without a court order to three days and stated that the police do not have the right to detain people for disobeying their orders

On Wednesday a search was carried out of the flat owned by Alexander Kovalyov, leader of the Afghanistan War Veteran NGO “Nobody Except Us”. The search comes less than a month after major protests in Kyiv and an attempt by the war veterans to storm parliament over plans to cut benefits

On 11 October journalists from the Korrespondent journal and Kommersant – Ukraine were injured by Berkut riot offices outside the Pechersky District Court in Kyiv where the verdict was being read out against former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko

Berkut Special Force officers are detaining the most active protesters involved in scuffles with police outside the Pechersky District Court in Kyiv where Yulia Tymoshenko, former Prime Minister, presidential candidate and leader of the largest opposition party, has just been sentenced to 7 years imprisonment

Iron fences have now been put in surrounding the Verkhovna Rada from all sides, as the website GLAVRED puts it, “securely protecting National Deputies from the people”. The latest 2-metre-high fence supposedly just appeared, with the ruling majority saying they know nothing about it

The owner of the firm ProstoPrint which came to fame recently over its production of t-shirts with the words “Thank You, Residents of Donbas”, is convinced that the law enforcement agencies have persecuted him because of ProstoPrint’s production of the t-shirts