During the night from 14-15 October members of a private security firm, accompanied by National Deputy Vasyl Hrytsak battered down the door and burst into the address on Gorky St in Kyiv which the Institute “Respublica” has occupied since 1997.

It states that this right has been infringed in 2008 by representatives of the Presidential Secretariat, the local authorities, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the courts though unwarranted bans on rallies, pickets and demonstrations, or obstructions to these

On 27 June the Uzhhorod City-District Court banned until the end of the summer (until 31 August this year) rallies outside the Transcarpathian Regional Administration.

The Simferopol authorities have banned the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists from holding a rally on Lenin Square on 29 June to mark the anniversary of the birth of the Head of the Ukrainian Resistance Army Roman Shukhevych

Officials of the Executive Committee of the Donetsk City Council are putting obstacles in the way of believers holding a peaceful gathering on 1 June

The right to hold an event is granted without any permits from the local authorities. It is necessary to mere warn them within five days

In an important judgment on 3 April in the case of Koretskyy and others v. Ukraine, the European Court of Human Rights found that Ukraine had violated Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights

The Eurasian Youth Union raised its ugly head in Ukraine on Friday, with the desecration of Ukrainian State emblems on Mount Hoverli in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. After photographing their “heroic deeds” , the three culprits sped out of the country in the direction of Russia

14 October marks the official founding date of the Ukrainian Resistance Army [UPA]. An administrative court in Kyiv on Friday allowed all applications make by the Kyiv City State Administration to restrict mass actions by political factions and organizations with very different attitudes to the date

A project has been launched to provide legal advice on State registration and relations between civic organizations, religious organizations, trade unions, charities and regulatory bodies

A temporary court order was asked for by the Prosecutor on this Union which is notorious for its radical pro-Russian views and excesses and claimed responsibility for the removal of an UPA monument late last year

Around 40 supporters of Valery Kaurov’s Yedinoye Otechestvo [Common Fatherland] are believed to have beaten up the picketers, with four people hospitalized, and some of the injured including women

On Sunday morning 2 September members of a peaceful picket against the restoration of a monument to Catherine the Great were attacked by supporters of Valery Kaurov “Common Fatherland” movement.. Several picketers were hospitalized.

Leonid Chernovetsky says he will not “allow Kyiv to be turned into a battleground for political opponents” and claims the tents create disorder. Various political factions have already reacted angrily and say they will take him to court

The rejection of the Dnipropetrovsk city authorities’ appeal has hopefully knocked these most draconian regulations on the head. Now it’s the turn for the others.

A successful civil suit lodged by two human rights defenders has succeeded in quashing restrictions on peaceful assembly imposed by a local authority in contravention of the Constitution. Since violations of freedom of assembly in Ukraine are often due to such unlawful decisions by local authorities, the impact of this ruling will hopefully be major.

In view of the unprecedented court order and atttitude of the city authorities, the civic movement “Narodna samooborona” [“People’s Self-Defence”] will hold a rally in Kharkiv on 16 March, but not on the central Freedom Square, but on “Sobornist” Square

The Dzherzhynsky District Court in Kharkiv has banned any stage being set up on Freedom Square. The suit was lodged by the city authorities who demanded that Friday’s rally with Yury Lutsenko be banned.

The Dzherzhynsky District Court in Kharkiv has placed a ban on advertisements in the mass media for the rally of the civic movement “Narodna samooborona” [“People’s Self-Defence”] in Kharkiv on 16 March

The Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union points to continuing lack of compliance with international standards in the system of registration of civic organizations in Ukraine