Two members of a Kazakhstani opposition party allege that they were either attacked or threatened by people identifying themselves as from Ukraine’s Security Service on 6 January

Andriy Tarakhteyev , the deputy heard of a police department in the Kharkiv oblast, has been charged with using torture back in November 2019 to force out a ‘confession’ to murder

There is mounting frustration among the Vilshany Roma community and human rights defenders at attempts to shield one of the key suspects in an appalling attack on the community and murder of its informal leader, Mykola Kaspitsky

Five years after the international media showed shocking images of Ukrainian anti-Roma disturbances, the only person in prison is very likely innocent

The District Administrative Court in Kyiv has allowed a claim by Oleksandr Marynchenko, one of the former Berkut officers accused of gunning down unaimed Maidan activists on 20 February 2014 and has reinstated him in Ukraine’s police force.

Although Gyunguz Mamedov has formally resigned himself, few believe that he was not forced out in a move that gravely jeopardizes Ukraine’s legal battles against Russia

Lawyers representing Gyunguz Mamedov have demanded to see ‘Security Service letters’ which the Prosecutor General has claimed were behind her extraordinary decision to remove Mamedov from his post as highly effective head of the crucial ‘War Department’

Volodymyr Serba, former Head of the Zaporizhya Regional Police, claimed that he was not in hiding, despite evidence that he had fled to Russia and reason to believe that he has obtained Russian citizenship

Iryna Venediktova’s removal of Gyunduz Mamedov, who has played a vital role in Ukraine’s international legal suits against Russia, helps only Moscow

Viktor Eismont and Volodymyr Mokhon were not, however, convicted of carrying out a criminal order, although it was the sheer savagery of that Berkut attack that turned Euromaidan into a mass movement

KhPG jointly with the KhISR carried on a research in order to provide a comparative analysis of opinions of ordinary citizens and police officers on the scale of spread of unlawful violence in police activity.

The appointment of a person associated with notorious pro-Russian politician Viktor Medvedchuk as Deputy Prosecutor General and reports that is to be in charge of Maidan cases seem another slap in the face to the families of slain Maidan victims, one of many over the last year.

The Russian FSB finally released Crimean Solidarity and Grani.ru journalist Aider Kadyrov in the early hours of 1 September, almost 18 hours after they first took him and three other Crimean Tatars from their homes

After five years as a political prisoner in Russia, Oleksandr Kolchenko has been sentenced by a Ukrainian court to 40 hours of community work on the basis of false police protocols which the judge chose to believe

Maidan lawyers and civic organizations have reacted with outrage to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s appointment of Oleh Tatarov as Deputy Head of the Office of the President

Lutfiye Zudiyeva, one of the coordinators of the Crimean Solidarity civic initiative and a civic journalist, has lodged important legal challenges against ‘warning’ she was issued by the Russian-controlled prosecutor and police against supposed ‘extremist activities’

With at least 17 criminal investigations announced against former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko since Volodymyr Zelensky took office, it is no easy task to concentrate on any specific charges, however the stakes this time appear to be very high

The two latest draft bills on reform of Ukraine’s Security Service [SBU], including one from President Volodymyr Zelensky, “give virtually unlimited and uncontrolled powers to the SBU which are not typical for democratic countries” and that is just one of their failings

Instead of answering for his part in the politically-motivated prosecution of Dima Groysman, a well-known human rights activist, Oleksandr Soldatov continued his police career and has now been appointed to the highest police post in the Vinnytsa oblast.

Six years have passed since the tragic disturbances and fire in Odesa on 2 May 2014 that Russia immediately tried to turn into an ‘Odesa Massacre’