17.08.05
On 20 May 20 activists of the public organization “Galytskiy vybir” conducted the picket of the USS directorate of the Lviv region with the demand to stop the construction of an apartment house on the place, where the NKVD officers had tortured to death thousands of Ukrainians and Poles.
17.08.05
On 17 May 2005 Vasyl Tretetskiy, a deputy head of the Kharkiv regional state administration, and Nina Lapchinska, the head of the editorial-publishing group of the Kharkiv issue “Rehabilitated by history”, presented to journalists the first part of the first volume of the scientific-documentary series “Rehabilitated by history”, published in Kharkiv. The book contains the bibliographic references on 5785 persons, who were repressed during the period from 1919 to 1934.
17.08.05
The editorial office of RUPOR received a letter from Vinnitsa. Prisoners of two penitentiaries tell about the horrible situation with human rights in these establishments.
17.08.05
The Kharkiv Regional Department of the Ministry of Interior informed the KhG about the results of check of the information published on the site “Maydan”, which concerned the violations of operating laws by officers of law-enforcing organs. Co-chairman of the KhG Evhen Zakharov has serious doubts as to impartiality of this check.
17.08.05 | Olena Holiuk, RUPOR
Summarizing results of interaction of mass media and the new government during the first hundred days, media experts point out some improvement of standards of journalistic activities, but the situation with the freedom of speech remains far from ideal.
17.08.05
The statement that the problem of freedom of speech in Ukraine is solved, is, to put it mildly, an exaggeration. This especially concerns the regions, where local power organs still want to control mass media and influence editorial policy, thus exerting pressure on mass media. Unfortunately, such forms of “cooperation” with mass media are practiced in Lviv even after the Orange Revolution.
17.08.05 | Volodymyr Yavorsky. RUPOR
The day before yesterday the European Court of human rights made public its decision in the case Sergey Chizhov vs. Ukraine. He complained against Ukraine in the connection with non-fulfillment of the court decision about paying out the compensation for illegal arrest, which violated his right for fair trial. The European Court supported the claimant.
It seems that the new President of Ukraine inherited the juridical service from the team of his predecessor, together with its legal nihilism. Yet, we hope that is it only an inadvertence of Viktor Yushchenko, but not his conscious position.
17.08.05 | Volodymyr Yavorsky, Kyiv
Yesterday the European court for human rights pronounced verdicts on three cases against Ukraine unanimously recognizing the violation by the country of the right for fair trial and the right for free management of one’s property, as well as the absence of efficient national tools for protection of these rights in Ukraine. Besides, violation of the right for fair trial because of unreasonable term of trial was acknowledged in one case
17.08.05
The Ordzhonikidzevskiy district court of Kharkiv considered the complaint of advocate G. Tokarev against the detention of his client. The detention was acknowledged to be illegal. The court resolution is accompanied with the KhG commentary
17.08.05
Analysis by Evhen Zakharov, the Head of the Board of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union.
17.08.05
The Ministry of Interior started 500 criminal cases after the facts of violations in the course of the past election of the President of Ukraine, 111 of them have been directed to court. 250 law-enforcers are connected with violations during the election; 40% of them – militia officers of medium and top rank.
Head of a district election commission, got 10 thousand hryvnas from a representative of a candidate to President’s post. For this money he had to commit the actions, which would influence the final result of the election.
17.08.05
The head of the department for supervision over investigation of criminal cases by investigating organs of prosecutor’s office of the Kharkiv region, informed that altogether the regional prosecutor’s office instituted 20 criminal cases after the complaints about violations of laws during the presidential election.
17.08.05
Four dwellers of the Vasylyevskiy district of the Zaporozhye region were condemned to two years of reformative works for falsification of results of the election of the President of Ukraine.
