The Pechersky District Court in Kyiv has upheld the Prosecutor General’s Office resolution removing the contract killing charge against former police general, Oleksy Pukach with respect to the killing of journalist Georgy Gongadze.
Myroslava Gongadze is demanding that the Prosecutor General enforces the court ruling asking to see the material regarding the charges against former police general, Oleksy Pukach following the appeal against exclusion of “commissioned killing” from the charges related to the murder of Georgy Gongadze
The Prosecutor General has refused to allow Myroslava Gongadze’s lawyer, Valentina Telychenko to read the material of the criminal file on former Police General Oleksiy Pukach, charged with the murder of journalist Georgy Gongadze
Myroslava Gongadze’s lawyer suggests that it is convenient to find one person, dependent on his superiors to pin the blame on, as well as a dead man, and say that the others responsible have not been identified
The court ruling states that the alleged failings in establishing the reasons and circumstances of Ihor Indylo’s death did not require additional investigation
12.10.10
Two officers of the Shevchenkivsky Police Station have been charged with exceeding their official duties and negligence over the death in police custody of 19-year-old student, Ihor Indylo
The Prosecutor General’s Office is trying to find out where the publication received the resolution showing the investigators’ plan to say Yury Kravchenko ordered Gongadze’s murder
14.09.10
As the 10th anniversary of Georgy Gongadze’s disappearance approaches, Ukrainska Pravda reports that the Prosecutor General’s investigation is to find that General Oleksy Pukach received the order to kill Gongadze from the then Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yury Kravchenko
43-year-old patient of the Novosavytsky Psychiatric Home, Yury Vovchenko, died during the night of 11 August, . He was buried, on the instructions of the orderlies, before morning, but the body was then exhumed
Mykhailo Stadnyk, 31, died after spending 12 hours in the district police station. There were 51 marks from blows on his body, with bruises even on his heels. The police claim that he hit his head when he fell. t
26.08.10
Ihor Indylo, a student who should have turned 20 the next day died in police custody in May. The investigators would now appear to be digging up all previous injuries to “explain” away his death
While no time bar applies to Pukach who was in hiding for at least 4 years, Valentina Telychenko, lawyer representing Myroslava Gongadze believes that those who ordered the killing have a good chance of not even being named
In Kyiv on Friday morning, outside the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a Wall of Remembrance was erected in memory of those tortured to death by police. The organizers call on the MIA management to support the creation of effective mechanisms of public control over investigations into cases involving torture and ill-treatment
On Friday, 25 June, on the eve of International Day against Torture, a Wall of Remembrance will be erected outside the Ministry of Internal Affairs and 200 red carnations laid in memory of the number of victims of torture of whom human rights groups are aware.
22.06.10
Not surprisingly since it has taken two prosecutor’s offices two years to investigate the death, the suspect now needs to be caught
11.06.10
On 10 June young Luhansk residents joined the nationwide protect “The Police will answer for murder” prompted by the death in police custody of student Ihor Indylo who was studying in Kyiv
Human rights organizations are demanding an open investigation into the death of student Ihor Indylo in a Kyiv police station and are sceptical of the measures thus far planned by the Ministry of Internal Affairs
02.06.10 | Halya Coynash
The reaction of the Minister of Internal Affairs to the wave of protest over the death in police custody of Ihor Indylo, a young student, is disturbingly inadequate especially given the real problems which the police must address
01.06.10
Around 200 students and others held a demonstration outside the Shevchenkivsky Police Station demanding that those responsible for the death of a fellow student be brought to justice and for an end to the use of torture by the police
29.05.10
Following wide publicity and entirely conflicting reports, the Shevchenkivsky District Prosecutor’s Office has initiated a criminal investigation against police officers over the death of a 19-year-old student in the Shevchenkivsky District Police Station
