MENU
Documenting
war crimes in Ukraine

The Tribunal for Putin (T4P) global initiative was set up in response to the all-out war launched by Russia against Ukraine in February 2022.

Similar articles

New charges concocted to extend sentence of 64-year-old Oleh Prykhodko, imprisoned for opposing Russia’s occupation of Crimea Russia sentences four Crimean Tatar civic activists to 53 years for ‘dissident views’ Russia sentences human rights defender to 14 years for helping political prisoners seek justice from ECHR Sharp increase in persecution for pro-Ukrainian position in Russian-occupied Crimea Volodymyr Panasenko, victim of Ukraine’s most egregious miscarriage of justice, freed after over 16 yearsCrimean Tatar activist sentenced to 18 years for discussing religion and Russian repression Armed Russian FSB violently arrest peaceful Jehovah’s Witness in occupied Crimea New arrest on grotesque criminal charges in Russia’s attack on Perm Memorial and historical memory Russia upholds 14-year prison sentences for Crimean Tatar human rights activism‘Russian military defeat will enhance the probability of bringing Russia to justice’ Yevgeniy Zakharov’s interview to the Ukrainian NGO ‘Media Detector’ Russia sentences blind and disabled Ukrainian to 17 years for discussing politics and religion Russia conceals diagnosis after effectively torturing abducted civic journalist for over six months Russia escalates torture conditions against imprisoned Crimean Tatar leader Nariman Dzhelyal Russian court helps prosecution fake evidence in ‘trial’ of Crimean Tatar civic activist Ensuring that Russia answers for its killing of children in Uman and countless other war crimes FSB behind the torment and endless stream of sentences in Russia against 25-year Crimean TatarLife-saving medication taken away from gravely ill Crimean Solidarity civic journalist in Russian occupation prison Notorious fake experts deployed in 'trial' of Memorial head for criticizing Russia's war against Ukraine Record 'low sentence' exposes brutal methods behind Russia’s repression in occupied Crimea Insane sentence after Russian FSB kidnaps and tortures young Crimean Tatar from Kherson oblast

Law on Public Prosecutor finally passed

15.10.2014   

Ukraine’s parliament on Tuesday finally adopted Law №3541 which makes real reform of the Public Prosecutor’s Office possible. Considering that the reform was a condition of Ukraine’s joining the Council of Europe back in 1995, Ukraine’s legislators cannot be praised for fast work, but at least they got there.  

On Oct 10 Christos Giakoumopoulos, the Special Advisor of the Secretary General (SASG) for Ukraine issued a statement stressing the importance of adopting a new law on the Public Prosecutor and the need for the law to comply with Council of Europe standards, in particular the recommendations of the Joint Opinion of the Venice Commission and the Directorate of Human Rights of the Council of Europe on the Draft Law of Ukraine on the Office of the Public Prosecutor.

Boris Malyshev, one of the civic experts who have been campaigning for this law, has highlighted five achievements of the new law which will come into force in 6 months.

He says that after the first reading, the parliamentary committee took into account over 300 amendments, some of which were negative.  He notes that a number of radical, however publicly beneficial amendments were rejected. 

This being said, the law remains progressive, its main achievement being the decentralization of staffing and disciplinary powers between three institutions which are independent of each other: the Prosecutor General; the Council of Prosecutors; and the Qualification and Disciplinary Commission of Prosecutors.

The law removes the role of general oversight;

The third achievement is the right of any prosecutor to demand that instructions from higher level are given in written form.  They are not obliged to comply with verbal instructions.

The fourth – selection of staff and review of complaints about prosecutors and imposition of penalties will be undertaken by the Qualification and Disciplinary Commission, most of whose members are not prosecutors. In its turn the Council of Prosecutors gives consent for the appointment of a first deputy and other deputy Prosecutor General; the heads of regional and local prosecutor’s offices and their first deputies.

Fifth new staff for the prosecutor’s office will have to compete for the job, with the use of anonymous testing and a rating system. 

 Share this