On 21 October officers of the Stanichno-Luganskiy district militia precinct detained the group of agitators for Viktor Yushchenko and seized agitation materials from them.

On massive violations of electoral law and the OSCE and CoE standards for elections

If the authorities feel no shame, if they refuse to apologize to the youth, for which they have failed to create conditions for decent life, then these authorities are bankrupt and evil. “You are young and you are to create a design of our future”.

On persecution of the opposition youth in Ukraine. “The crimes committed by the authorities against an individual or laws inadvertently turn into crimes against humanness and humanity.”

The Presidential election campaign, which is under way in Ukraine, is mired with grave violations of the fundamental human rights and basic freedoms…

On 8 October the two-volume edition of the Kharkov group for human rights protection “Three revolts of Sichkos” was presented in the Kyiv House of teachers.

As the Ukrainian mass media have already noted, the progress of the Presidential election-2004 is characterized by stiff, even savage confrontation, between candidates nominated by different political camps, as well as by ultimately law moral standards demonstrated by the acting executive power

On 29-30 September 2004 the conference “Ethical principles of the third sector” will be held in Kyiv. The goal of the conference is to sum up the results of the discussion of the draft of Declaration of ethical principles of the activities of organizations of civil society of Ukraine, which discussion is carried out now in all regions of Ukraine, and to create the efficient mechanism of joining of organizations to the Declaration of ethical principles.

Recently the institute “Respublika” has prepared the report on the observance in Ukraine of the right for peaceful assemblies in May-August of the current year.

Three men turned to the Podilskiy center of human rights, who asked to protect their rights in connection with the cases of violation by militiamen of the prohibition to collect information about a person without his/her consent.

The political conflict in Priluki evidence that the power applies force methods for the achievement of its goals.

V. Yanukovich’s headquarters involve religious organizations in the election campaign.

V. Probiy-Golova, the empowered person of Viktor Yushchenko and the head of his Crimean headquarters, turned to prosecutor of the Crimea with the demand to institute a criminal case after the fact of wiretapping of his home telephones by militia.

Hooligan actions during the concerts in support of V. Yushchenko and other illegal actions. Militia is doing nothing for detention and punishment of the criminals.

The local court of the Leninskiy district of Kharkov refused to consider the complaint of the empowered persons of V. Yushchenko. The claimants demanded to acknowledge as lawless the actions of the newspaper “Offitsialnye Vedomosti” , which illegally published the agitation materials in favor of only one candidate – V. Yanukovich.

Consideration of practical fulfillment of the Law “On election of the President of Ukraine” reveals numerous violations of legal norms and factual absence of punishment for such violations.

State officials sabotaged a special session of the Chortkiv district council. The session was initiated by a group of deputies with the aim to turn the attention to the illegal cases of use of administrative resource during the Presidential election campaign.

Priests take part in pre-election agitation thus violating law.

Leaders of the Lugansk oblast openly support Viktor Yanukovich.

Information by the Lugansk oblast department of Voters’ Committee of Ukraine.