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• Topics / Penal institutions
No Presidential opinion on prisoners food parcels
20.03.2009
Fortunately the Ministry of Justice is planning to deal with this real problem in crisis conditions
UHHRU Appeal on behalf of prisoners
06.02.2009
The Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union is calling on the President, Prime Minister and Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada to use their legislative initiative to prepare and submit a draft law to protect the rights of prisoners to receive parcels without restriction.
Legal aid to prisoners:
05.02.2009
KHPG Open Letter to the Prosecutor General Oleksandr Medvedko and the Head of the State Department for the Execution of Sentences, Vasyl Koshchynets over stubborn refusals to provide information and access to legal aid
Former Head of Lviv SIZO convicted of beating prisoners
02.02.2009
The court passed a 3.5 year suspended sentence on Vasyl Romanyshyn
KHPG lawyer refused access to prisoners
29.10.2008
The persistent refusal to allow our lawyer to see prisoners complaining of force being used against them suggests that an attempt is being made to ensure that the traces of ill-treatment are not seen and that those responsible are not punished
Parents to face stiffer penalties for offences against their children
25.10.2008
Psychologists and the heads of juvenile corrective institutions say that it is most often lack of attention and care that leads to young people ending up behind bars
Head of the Department for the Execution of Sentences broke the law
03.10.2008
The ruling which found that the Head of the Department acted unlawfully in failing to provide information in timely fashion has come into force.
Public control wanting over penal institutions
19.09.2008
According to the head of Donetsk Memorial Oleksandr Bukalov, there is virtually no public control over penal institutions, and what is being seen is a mere imitation of protection of prisoners rights
Strategy for reforming criminal justice may get moving
29.08.2008
In September, according to the Strategy, a new Criminal Procedure Code should be submitted to the Cabinet of Ministers for its consideration
Official responses and questions remaining
22.07.2008
On recent responses from the State Department for the Execution of Sentences on what it deems to be unconstructive criticism
25% of suspects remanded in custody unwarrantedly
16.07.2008
This is the number of people freed because the investigations are terminated by the criminal investigation or detective inquiry units; the preventive measure is changed; the case is terminated by the courts and through acquittals; suspended sentences etc
Police officers charged over the wrongful prosecution of Svitlana Zaitseva
15.07.2008
Svitlana Zaitseva had “confessed” to the crime during the criminal investigation, apparently under duress. She died of tuberculosis contracted in prison
So are there restrictions on parcels for prisoners?
04.07.2008
A Constitutional Court judgment, Cabinet of Ministers Resolution, as well as Internal Regulations make it difficult to answer a question which clearly needs regulating
Real measures not imitation needed
20.06.2008
Open Appeal over numerous human rights infringements in the work of the State Department for the Execution of Sentences
Head of the Penal Service not above the law
13.06.2008
Court finds that the Head of the State Department for the Execution of Sentences acting wrongfully by failing to provide information in the legally stipulated period on the mortality figures in the penal system
No sign of mass beating of prisoners in Colony No. 100
11.06.2008
Head of the Board of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union and KHPG legal expert Arkady Bushchenko and bar lawyer Iryna Yakovets visited the colony on 10 June, following a press statement from the Vinnytsa Human Rights Group
Looking in – and out
31.05.2008
An important new website has been created by Donetsk Memorial and has begun work in gathering and sharing information about Ukraines penal institutions.
Verkhovna Rada prepared to humanize the penal system
16.04.2008
238 National Deputies (236 votes were needed) voted on Tuesday to pass through its second reading the draft law “On amendments to the Criminal and Criminal Procedure Codes on humanizing criminal liability
Penal staff rapped on the knuckles
10.04.2008
The heads of the penal colonies where incidents occurred recently are to be punished, at least through disciplinary measures
Zhytomyr judge faces charges over exploiting prisoners
09.04.2008
A judge from the Zhytomyr region is accused of using people imprisoned for 15 days to help build his fathers dacha. He could now face between 5 and 8 years imprisonment himself
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