On 31 March the Feodosia newspaper “Kafa” won the trial connected with the demand of a private person to refute the information published in the newspaper. The claim was not satisfied, since the information had been obtained from a state official at the time of fulfillment of his service duty.

The European Court obliged Ukraine to pay compensation to a Ukrainian citizen beaten by militia officers five years ago.

“Taking into consideration everything above-said, we are turning to you with the plea to take all needed juridical and political measures for the protection of the operating Constitution and, at the same time, for initiation of the process of really democratic constitutional reform”, – appeals the Alliance “Maydan”.

As a result of checks numerous facts of falsification of the election were disclosed. According to the information communicated by the PR-department of the Ministry of Interior of Ukraine, the majority of falsifications were connected with the voting with false off-list tickets and on behalf of dead, non-existent or temporarily absent citizens.

Militia looks for two suspects of organization of violations at the election of the mayor of Mukachevo (the Zakarpatska region) on 18 April 2004, as well as violations in the course of the first and second tours of presidential election in October and November 2004. This information was communicated by “Ukrainski novyny” with reference to the press-service of the Ministry of Interior.

A 53-year-old woman, a member of a district election commission, was condemned to 5 years of incarceration with the probation term of two years for falsification of protocols.

Special thematic festival of films, devoted to the problems of human rights, was conducted

Participants of the seminar for journalists “Human rights and freedoms and mechanism of their protection”, which was held on 18-24 March near Kyiv, tried to answer this question

Some statistics.

On 15 February Eduard Bagirov, the chairman of the board of the international public organizations “International League for protection of rights of citizens of Ukraine”, and Vladimir Shirochenko, a journalist of the newspaper “Pravda Ukrainy”, were not admitted to Shepetovska reforming colony No. 98, situated in the Khmelnitskiy region.

The Voters’ Committee of Ukraine is going to hand a claim to court against the Supreme Council of the Crimea, since the latter does not answer the informational requests of the organization

On 25 February the press conference of the Alliance “Maydan” was held in UNIAN. Participants of the conference discussed the practices of illegal classification of normative-legal acts and other documents

“Legal indeterminateness in the sphere of public relations and information-communicative technologies, inconsistency between the Ukrainian normative-legal base and the European legislation results in the system obstacles on the way of development of the informational society”.

The company “Ukrainska press-Grupa”, which owns the newspaper “Day”, turned to the European court of human rights with the appeal against the decisions of Ukrainian judges in the case on the protection of honor and dignity of Natalya Vitrenko and Petro Simonenko. The European Court acknowledged Ukraine to be guilty of violation of Article 10 of the Convention of human rights

RUPOR informs that on 14 March the draft of the Criminal-procedural code, about which many have already forgotten, is again submitted to the coordinative council of parliamentary factions

By the state on 31 December 2004, the Constitutional reform is legally represented by Law No. 2222-IV “On introduction of changes into the Constitution of Ukraine” of 8 December 2004. Legal analysis of the Law from the viewpoint of human rights and some recommendations on improvement of the Law

The Leninskiy court of Kirovograd issued the resolution about taking into custody of Vadim Volkanov, the deputy of the mayor, and Anatoliy Prilipko, the deputy head of territorial election circuit No. 100 in the first tour of the election

The Petrivskiy district court of the Kirovograd region condemned the head of district election commission No. 168 of territorial election circuit No. 104 to three years of deprivation of liberty for falsification of the results of voting in the first tour of the election of the President of Ukraine

The Gorodishchenskiy district court of the Cherkassy region brought in a verdict of guilty in the case on accusation of the head and secretary of district election commission No. 7 of the 199th election circuit. The court acknowledged two local women to be guilty of falsifications during the run-off election of the President of Ukraine

On 16 March the Bobrinetskiy district court of the Kirovograd region condemned the head of district election commission No. 25 of the territorial election circuit No. 101 to 5 years of incarceration for falsification of the results of voting during the Presidential election