07.08.08
A disappointing ruling from a Kharkiv court of appeal regarding the legitimacy of the actions of the Kharkiv metro police in stopping people to check their documents on disputed grounds
06.08.08 | Halya Coynash
On apparent efforts to fuel discord between different ethnic groups in the Crimean media and the techniques applied to manipulate the audience
04.08.08
On 1 August the Supreme Court suspended the ruling of the Kyiv Court of Appeal from 2 July which ordered a review of a ruling from 1999 which formed the grounds for National Deputy David Zhvania to receive Ukrainian citizenship
04.08.08
Members of the public have already appealed against the decision
01.08.08 | Halya Coynash
The courts must not be ignored when their rulings are not to the Prosecutor’s liking, and the law is not a device for manipulation, but a mechanism for protecting us all.
30.07.08
It was both a bitter irony and a telling statement that the press conference to present the annual report “Human Rights in Ukraine in 2007” was forced to emphatically call for the dismissal of Ukraine’s Prosecutor General over his violation of Ukraine’s commitments with regard to refugees
30.07.08
Open Appeal from the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union regarding the Prosecutor General’s extradition of a recognized refugee
28.07.08 | Halya Coynash
On National Deputy David Zhvania, recent interrogations, citizenship irregularities and political scandals in the context of the rule of law
28.07.08
Ukrainian human rights organizations’ annual report will be presented on Wednesday 30 July and discussed during a roundtable in Kyiv organized by the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union
25.07.08
An interview with two prominent Russian human rights defenders – Ludmilla Alexeeva and Yury Orlov – regarding the situation in Russia and how Russia and Ukraine are making their way to democracy
23.07.08
Ukraine’s Security Service is to make public the first list of Party and Soviet figures, heads of the punitive bodies, as well as documents signed by them personally which formed the organizational and legal basis for committing Holodomor in Ukraine and mass repression.
18.07.08 | Halya Coynash
We should watch out for criminals, not for people of a certain race. The law enforcement agencies undoubtedly have a tough and complicated task, however primitive methods only generate new problems and contribute to a rise in racism and xenophobia
15.07.08
Svitlana Zaitseva had “confessed” to the crime during the criminal investigation, apparently under duress. She died of tuberculosis contracted in prison
10.07.08 | Halya Coynash
The murder of a child is a horrific crime regardless of political considerations, regardless of injustices endured. However much Poles may have oppressed Ukrainians, there can be no justification, historical, political or moral, for the murder of civilians
07.07.08
On 7 July 1988 at a rally attended by some fifty thousand people in Lviv the creation was announced of a the Ukrainian Helsinki Union. This was the first mass social, political and human rights organization in the Ukrainian SSR
03.07.08
The Resolution pays tribute to the innocent lives of millions of Ukrainians who perished during the Holodomor of 1932 and 1933 as a result of the mass starvation brought about by the cruel deliberate actions and policies of totalitarian Stalinist regime;
20.06.08
Open Appeal over numerous human rights infringements in the work of the State Department for the Execution of Sentences
