06.04.08 | Yevhen Zakharov
The Constitution is an act of civic society and it cannot be passed solely by professional politicians who will certainly not manage to avoid the temptation of adapting the Constitution to serve their own selfish interests, or will sabotage its creation altogether
02.04.08
The stable situation which the Department for the Execution of Sentences reports would appear to be somewhat less resolved, although attempts are being made to talk to the prisoners
The documentaries are always dialogues about human beings and if the films are on human rights, then the dialogue is doubly honest
25.03.08
We have yet to learn whether the European Court of Human Rights has applied Rule 39 halting any expulsion pending review. If it has, then the plans to expel Abdulazhon Isakov from the Tyumen oblast are a flagrant violation of Russia’s international commitments, as well as of RF legilsation
25.03.08
The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group has received information that on 18 March, a spetsnaz [special forces] unit of around 10 men in masks and full fighting gear was deployed in penal institution No. 55 in the Zaporizhya region
Sova Centre data indicates that racially-motivated attacks are becoming more serious. Neo-Nazis no longer just try to beat up their victims, but actually kill them
24.03.08
The “Equal Opportunities” Committee announces plans to make 2008 a year of monitoring of commissioned news items in the media, the authorities’ level of transparency, the coverage by the media of constitutional reform and more
Torture in Ukraine can be considered a legitimate means of gaining a confession if one considers the judgment handed down on this week by the Supreme Court in the case of Motsny and Nechyporuk
13.03.08
Kyiv police have detained a minor suspected of murdering a 40-year-old refugee from Sierra Leone on 8 March.
12.03.08
Given the near information blackout in Armenia, it is important to post the following appeal from the Helsinki Association of Armenia and the report about arrests, etc
11.03.08 | Halya Coynash
The response “They never learn!” was probably shared by many on Friday when it became known that the Ukrainian authorities had expelled 11 asylum seekers back to Sri Lanka. A great deal was hideously reminiscent of February 2006 when the authorities handed over 11 Uzbeks to Karimov’s henchmen.
09.03.08 | Halya Coynash
On Roman Shukhevych, how history was rewritten and on one more legacy of Soviet justice – your children and your children’s children shall suffer for the crimes your fathers never committed
The Director of the Yad Vashem Archive Department Chaim Gertner confirmed that there was no dossier on Shukhevych in the archives. He said that Josef Lapid who had claimed there was such a file was not an employee of the archives
04.03.08
Sufficient to glance at the Ombudsperson’s website to see how extensive the work is, not to mention the coverage, with sections updated irregularly and unsystematically
01.03.08 | Halya Coynash
A surreal court ruling on 29 February could, if not revoked, send many people’s faith in the rule of law into fast fall. The story was squalid and political, but this involves the judiciary and whatever the judges may say, it concerns every one of us
