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Election in Nikopol

18.01.05 | Yuri Babinin, Nikopol
Violations during the voting in Nikopol.
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Commentary to the events during Presidential election in the Ternopil region

18.01.05 | Oleksandr Stepanenko, Chortkiv
Review of the violations of election rights of citizens.
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Violations observed in the course of the election in the Chernigiv region

18.01.05
The Chernigiv public committee of human rights protection, in the framework of work of the informational center “Human rights during elections” and the project “Active protection of election rights-2004”, spreads the information about violations of human rights connected with the election process and violation of operating laws disclosed during the voting and calculation of votes on 31 October 2004 on the territory of the Chernigiv region.
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Whether the authorities exerted pressure on the election in Kharkiv?

18.01.05 | Natalya Goncharova, “Objektiv-No”
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Commentary by the Kharkiv human rights protection group on election-2004

18.01.05
The progress of the 2004 Presidential election is characterized by stiff, even savage confrontation between candidates nominated by different political camps, as well as by ultimately law moral standards of conduct manifested by the acting executive power…
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Politics and human rights

Open letter on non-transparent and criminal activities of power

18.01.05 | Zinoviy Antoniuk, a publicist, translator, participant of Ukrainian national-democratic and human ri
The analysis of the law drafts concerning the political reform
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Access to information

Access of candidates to mass media during the election campaign

07.12.04
The access of candidates to presidency to mass media and the context of presentation of information on election in different mass media are the subjects of the research carried out by the Institute of mass information, international human rights protecting organization “Article 19” and the Kharkov group for human rights protection. In what follows we present the results of the monitoring.
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Threats to journalists

07.12.04
The group of Kharkov journalists was openly threatened in presence of militiamen.
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Not all cases on meddling of officials in the election process are hopeless

07.12.04 | www.maidan.org.ua
The Appeal court of the Rivne oblast acknowledged as illegal the actions of the official, who agitated for Viktor Yanukovich.
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Appeal of the Chernigiv public committee of human rights protection on brutal violation of citizens’ right for the freedom of movement

07.12.04
In the morning of 30 October 2004 dwellers of Chernigiv started to turn to the Chernigiv public committee of human rights protection with the information that they or their acquaintances were coercively held in children’s camps near the village of Piatikhatki not far from Kyiv.
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Appeal of the Chernigiv public committee of human rights protection on mass violations of constitutional rights of citizens of Ukraine – members of public action “PORA!” in Chernigiv and their persecution by political reasons

07.12.04
On 18 October 2004, on the day of visit of candidate to presidency Viktor Yanukovich to Chernigiv, activists of the public action “PORA!” turned to the Chernigiv public committee of human rights protection with the information that their colleagues were massively detained and transported in unknown direction.
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On observance of human rights, connected with the election process, in the Chernigiv oblast

07.12.04
An excerpt from the report on the observance of human rights, connected with the election process, in the Chernigiv oblast in September and October 2004.
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Editor-in-chief of the informational agency “Status Quo” was dismissed in Kharkov

07.12.04
He refused to fulfill the political order to agitate for candidate to President’s post Viktor Yanukovich.
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Inhabitants of Gadiach are made to sell their votes to Yanukovich

07.12.04 | www.maidan.org.ua
It was proposed to the workers of local post office to write the appeal about their intention to vote for Yanukovich in exchange for 150 hryvnas. This and other facts of violations in Gadiach.
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Students as an object of coercion

07.12.04 | Oleksiy Svetikov, Severodonetsk
Students are forced to take part in the meetings in the support of Yanukovich and prohibited to visit the meetings of Yushchenko.
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Tax inspection as a tool for struggle with “adverse” agitation

07.12.04 | Oleksiy Svetikov, Severodonetsk
An official of the Kremenets district administration demanded from owner of a private shop to remove from the shop the agitation placard in favor of Yushchenko. This story had a continuation in the form of unscheduled check of the shop by tax inspection.
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Political shortsightedness of Lugansk militia

07.12.04 | Oleksiy Svetikov, Severodonetsk
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.
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Articles

No Excuse for Not Releasing Tymoshenko

Halya Coynash
President Yanukovych has said that no pardon can be granted until all criminal proceedings in the Tymoshenko cases have been concluded with this once again fuelling doubts about the competence of his advisers, both political and legal
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No Miracle, No Justice

Halya Coynash
Despite no evidence aside from multiple “confessions” retracted in court and grave irregularities, two sacristans of the Svyatopokrovsk Orthodox Church in Zaporizhya, and brother of one of them, have been convicted of the 2010 bomb blast in the Church and sentenced to 15 and 14 years respectively
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Win the elections or end up imprisoned?

Attempts to prosecute former opposition parliamentary candidate, Viktor Romanyuk, who was the clear leader until Party of the Regions candidate Zasukha got results in some polling precincts cancelled make any assurances given at the summit seem depressingly empty
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Railway ticket are again to include names

Yevhen Zakharov
The introduction of named railway tickets and the gathering of information about passengers’ movements infringe the right to privacy. Nobody has informed passengers of such a database, and has not asked for their consent to having data about their travels inserted and retained
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Offensive Truths

Halya Coynash
First Deputy Prosecutor General, Renat Kuzmin wants to criminalize “defamation”, which, unlike libel, can include true statements. At least within shooting range of Ukraine’s Criminal Code, this would silence all those unpleasant accusations of selective justice, judicial dependence etc
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Engineering Conflict in the Crimea

Halya Coynash
The Crimean leadership, almost certainly with encouragement from above, seem hellbent on fuelling confrontation with potentially tragic consequences
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Uses and abuses of far-right electoral gains in Ukraine

Halya Coynash
Recent electoral success of the rightwing VO Svoboda Party and the obvious benefits to the ruling Party of the Regions have prompted considerable speculation, while attempts to play hero to the far-right xenophobes suggest the influence of other players, including at least one Kremlin-supported organization
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