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Human rights groups have welcomed the idea of creating a body responsible for monitoring implementation of European Court of Human Rights judgements on Ukraine. They have doubts, however, that it will be possible to make such a body independent 
The Kyiv Court of Appeal has postponed until 31 January hearing the appeal lodged by Dmytro Pavlichenko and his son Serhiy against their sentences (life, and 13 years, respectively) over the murder of a judge of the Shevchenkivsky District Court Serhiy Zubkov 
The Postup Human Rights Centre says that on at least 5 occasions it has complained to the Prosecutor’s Office against police and Prosecutor’s Office infringements with regard to the case of Olaolu Femi, the Nigerian student held in custody since November 2011 after defending himself against 5 racist assailants 
Ukraine’s Justice Minister, Oleksander Lavrynovych has said that Ukraine may not reinstate Oleksander Volkov to his post as Supreme Court Judge as ordered by the European Court of Human Rights 
Murder charges against imprisoned former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko are likely to be viewed with the same scepticism in the West as previous prosecutions. But then western TV channels aren’t so very helpful in covering such stories 
Arkady Bushchenko, Defence lawyer and Executive Director of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union discusses positive features of the new Criminal Procedure Code as well as fears of retrograde steps by those who dislike its progressive ideology 
The Strasbourg judgement reported this week means that laws adopted using other MPs’ cards can be revoked since they constitute a clear violation of Ukraine’s Constitution 
Dmytro Reva, one of the men charged in connection with the Dnipropetrovsk bombs in April 2012 says that the police applied torture and psychological pressure. 
From the New Year state centres will be providing free legal aid. Defence lawyers are promised decent pay for representing the interests of low-income Ukrainians. 
On 27 December peaceful protesters in Kyiv were prevented from holding a demonstration outside the Prosecutor General’s Office in support of Olaola Femi, the Nigerian student in custody for over a year following a racist attack in which he tried to defend himself. 
Two men have finally been released from custody after six years in SIZO on the basis of a “confession” beaten out of one of them and despite howling discrepancies and infringements of their right to defence 
Serial killer Serhiy Tkach was finally convicted of a shocking number of crimes in 2005. By that time, Ukraine’s investigators and then courts had imprisoned ten people for some of these crimes 
On Wednesday Deputy Prosecutor General Renat Kuzmin demonstrated his customary disregard for the presumption of innocence, threatened imminent murder charges against imprisoned former Prime Minister Tymoshenko and also made a curious statement regarding the Gongadze Case. 
In depressingly familiar mode, theJustice Ministry’s presentation of one and the same government-commissioned report differs from just about everybody else’s. Most worryingly, on certain crucial points it differs from that of the report’s authors - US law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP 
The charge of corrupting minors is extremely serious, however the case has aroused concern, and suggestions that the musician may have been set up by a rival 
The Shevchenkivsky Court in Kyiv on Monday began examination of an extremely worrying case against the Director of the Anti-Raider Union of Entrepreneurs, Andriy Semydidko 
A positive feature of the new Criminal Procedure Code outlawing the use of confessions obtained under duress has highlighted an undoubted failing – reduced possibility for review in cases where a miscarriage of justice may have occurred. 
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