29.07.07 | Yevhen Zakharov
An attempt to establish what did actually happen in the Izyaslav Penal Colony and a reminder to the State Department for the Execution of Sentences that the days when they could conceal such outrages have passed
28.07.07
An affirmation of the vital role civic society must play in wrenching the country from its present crisis and a clear warning to those in power that public patience in their wantonly destructive games with the country and its people has come to an end
Yevhen Zakharov sees one of the main achievements of the Civic Assembly in its having drawn civic organizations together and enabled them to feel part of an ever more potent civic community
25.07.07
The Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union reports that the human rights situation deteriorated in 2006. Ample corroboration of this assessment is provided by the annual report just released “Human Rights in Ukraine – 2006”.
Civic organizations are demanding that the new version of the Constitution be drawn up not by the President’s Secretariat or the Verkhovna Rada, but by a newly-created body – a Constitutional Assembly
24.07.07
A survey commissioned by La Strada – Ukraine has shown that Ukrainians are most negative about stories which degrade people, as well as films with filthy language. It also found that the fairly high number of people who objected to violence being shown did not include many young people
At the All-Ukrainian Civic Assembly over 350 civic organizations are planning to call for changes to the Constitution which would prevent politicians misusing the Main Law of the country. Other resolutions will reflect the urgent need for those in power to understand that laws are to be observed, not manipulated or ignored
18.07.07
The Donetsk Court of Appeal has allowed the Prosecutor to not pay lawyer Serhiy Salov 2 million UAH for 8 months in a SIZO [pre-trial detention centre]. This revoked the ruling by the Voroshilovsky District Court in Donetsk which had order the Prosecutor to pay this amount in compensation for moral damages over the unwarranted detention in custody
11.07.07
The Court concluded that a number of these Articles ran counter to Article 1 of the Constitution which states that Ukraine is a sovereign and independent, democratic, social, law-based state
Media trade union demands that the Prosecutor General punish those responsible for the assault on the STB channel filming team
07.07.07 | Halya Coynash
Mikhail Trepashkin remains in solitary confinement, despite a medical condition which according to Russian legislation requires his release from imprisonment.
05.07.07 | Myroslava Svystovych
Myroslava Svystovych is presently appealing against both the untoward circumstances of her removal from office as Mayor of Irpin (Kyiv region) and against what she and other independent observers have suggested were serious violations of electoral procedure during the new elections
05.07.07 | Halya Coynash
While attention has been focused on Kyiv over the last few months, democracy would seem to have been under siege not so far away. There are some very disturbing echoes of 2004 in the recent mayoral election in Irpin (Kyiv region)
