14 criminal cases were started in the Kharkiv region on the facts of impediment to realization of the election rights of citizens, illegitimate use of election documents and incorrect calculation of votes during the election of the President of Ukraine. 5 such cases have been already passed to court

The criminal case against the heads of the election commission of the village of Sulla, the Sumy district, has been passed to the Kovpakovskiy district court. The criminal case on the fact of entering of deliberately false data into the protocol of calculation of votes by the officials of an election commission was instituted by the regional prosecutor’s office

The prosecutor’s office of the Voroshilovskiy district of Donetsk carried out, in the regional archive, unsealing of the boxes with the documentation concerning the results of the second tour of Presidential election in the 42nd election circuit of Donetsk. In the first two boxes old newspapers and magazines were found instead of the documents

The Kirovograd regional prosecutor’s office has instituted and investigates 24 criminal cases concerning violations of election laws. Seven such cases have been already directed to court for consideration per se. Besides, during the presidential election the prosecutor’s office received 259 complaints against violations of the demands of the election law

Two dwellers of Trostianets, who attacked an election station on 21 November 2004, can be condemned to incarceration for the term from 5 to 8 years

Court condemned three dwellers of the Chernigiv region to three years of incarceration with postponement of the verdict for use of false off-list tickets during the presidential election.

At the beginning of February the Sarnenskiy district court (the Rivne region) considered two criminal cases on violations of election laws. In particular, the court brought in the verdicts to the members of district election commissions, who, during the election of the President of Ukraine, abused the Law of Ukraine “On election of the President”.

Uzhgorod law-enforcers detained a group of Roma without any legal grounds and explanations

Main problems and tasks in this sphere, illustrated with real examples and sad statistics.

On 25-26 the seminar for judges of the Chernigiv region “The right for freedom of peaceful assemblies. Article 11 of the Convention on protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms” was held in Chernigiv.

Journalists were not admitted to a session of the Chuguev town council.

This is confirmed by 11 edicts with classification “not for publishing” out of 148 edicts signed by Viktor Yushchenko. Similar number of edicts with this classification was signed by Leonid Kuchma every month.

221 normative-legal acts and 10391 acts, which have been registered in Ukraine from the moment of establishment of state registration of normative-legal acts (from 1 January 1993 to 21 January 2005) have classifications “for service use only”, “secret” and “top secret”

Leader of the Christian-Liberal party Leonid Chernovetskiy reckons that many “surprises” in the form of illegally classified normative acts of force agencies are waiting for new Ukrainian power. He believes that the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine is responsible for this situation.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko declared his intention to start shortening of the state committees from the State Committee of Ukraine in charge of religion.

Starting from the next week advocates of the Kharkiv group for human rights protection will commence on granting free defense to the detained

The poll showed that the practice of illegal application of violence is quite common in the activities of Ukrainian militia...

There are at least two campaigns “PORA!” in Ukraine.

This question was discussed at the round table “Reform of the constitutional status of prosecutor’s office and its role in the system of human rights protection”, which was conducted on 2 February 2005 by the Parliamentary committee in charge of human rights, national minorities and interethnic relations. Short review of opinions and remarks of the participants

Sevastopol human rights protectors organized an action for protection of rights of the detained.