According to reports on Monday evening more than a thousand residents of Vradiyivka stormed the local police station, angered over the rape of a young woman apparently with the participation of police officers

In an interview otherwise unconstrained by considerations of accuracy, Prime Minister Azarov did get one thing right. The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement may be lost due to a number of unresolved issues, not only the politically motivated prosecution of the President’s main opponent, Yulia Tymoshenko

Forget calendars, preparations for the 2015 Presidential elections are already underway. The last few months have seen a large number of media resources being bought by people considered close to President Yanukovych and his sons

The Venice Commission and OSCE have been told by the government and Party of the Regions that an electoral code will not be adopted, and that only a few amendments will be made to the referendum law

The Kyiv Court of Appeal on 20 June 2013 upheld a court order banning any peaceful protest outside the Prosecutor General’s Office for two months

Late Friday evening Russian police took the offices of the human rights organization For Human Rights in the centre of Moscow by storm, bringing Lev Ponomaryov and others out by force

Refugees and asylum seekers get no help from the government and are not given the means to help themselves

If passed, a new draft law from the Party of the Regions MP who recently tried to recriminalize libel will heighten the very real threat at present of anti-terrorist measures becoming part of the arsenal of weapons used for propaganda purposes or against opponents of the regime.

KHPG is calling for urgent measures to ensure that a detainee receive medical treatment and that the court considers a different preventive measure.

New research has been published on prevention of torture and ill-treatment of children and adolescents in conflict with the law in Ukraine.

A serious case of chemical poisoning has taken place in Krasnopolye, Dnipropetrovsk oblast, and once again it is environmentalists who are forced to sound the alarm.

The Partnership “For Freedom of Peaceful Assembly” points out that information provided by the Deputy Interior Minister regarding a ban on wearing masks in the draft bill on freedom of peaceful assembly is not correct. It also rejects any such ban as being an infringement on people’s rights

Donetsk analysts and human rights workers concur in their view that the police are not coping with their law-defending function and are to blame for their bad image

On Tuesday within hours of each other, the State Duma’s lower house of Parliament passed bills to criminalize blasphemy and outlaw activism by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) individuals and their supporters.

Students and public sector workers complain that they are being forced to take part in political meetings. This, according to the Committee of Voters of Ukraine [CVU] can only be considered use of administrative resource

On Journalist Day the Institute of Mass Information and Independent Media Trade Union published their list of Press Enemies. With the Prime Minister and President top enemies, the Interior Minister and Prosecutor General were not far behind, as well as Mykola Knyazhytsky for his position recently over the seizure of TVi

The Constitutional Court has once again overturned a previous judgement and, in response from the Party of the Regions submission, stated that the Kyiv council and mayoral elections can be delayed until well after the next scheduled presidential elections

A police state is one which treats its own citizens as potential criminals. Ukraine has recently been taking on more and more features of such a state

10 days have elapsed since journalists Olha Snitsarchuk and Vlad Sodel were attacked by hired thugs while police watched

Journalists writing on corruption have begun collecting signatures to a petition calling for a return to transparency over public procurement following the disastrous bill signed by the President in August 2012