31.03.11
The Kharkiv Human Rights Group has given a press conference on the use of torture by police and the worrying increase in deaths of detainees
Stop Censorship! has issued a statement in which it calls on President Yanukovych to reinstate quarterly press conferences, show journalists Mezhyhirya, his controversial residence outside Kyiv and makes a number of other demands aimed at stemming the disturbing reduction in freedom of speech over the last year
Yakov Strogan is facing charges of attempted murder which were laid almost 4 months after the incident in question and consistent allegations by Strogan, supported by human rights defenders, of torture and gross misconduct by police officers
Amid the otherwise unfathomable game with cancelling anti-corruption legislation in favour of apparently analogous laws one result is entirely clear: public officials have received at least one more year concealing their outgoings
It calls on the owner and top management of the holding Glavred Media to resolve the internal conflicts as soon as possible, pay salary arrears to journalists and renew stable publication of the newspaper Gazeta po-kievski
17.03.11
The death has been announced of Ivan Andriyovych Hel, publicist, human rights defender, active participant in the national liberation and Greek Catholic movements from the 1960s, and twice a political prisoner.
16.03.11
A court case all the way to the Supreme Court to wrench out of the Ternopil City Council information about decisions taken by its predecessors and of clear importance to the public
UHHRU lawyer Maxim Shcherbatyuk has no doubt that the only conceivable winner from the new regulations making it impossible to register children not born in a maternity home is the State budget with families unable to receive assistance due them
15.03.11
Under the leadership of the Minister of the Interior, Anatoly Mohylyov, the police have turned into an instrument of repression and represent a danger to Ukraine’s national interests
The entire country heard Yanukovych’s promise that there would be no persecution of the Tax Code Maidan (the mass protest on Maidan Nezalezhnosti or Independence Square. His word was not kept long: three weeks after the Tax Code Maidan the authorities began real political repression
10.03.11
The following is a petition to President Yanukovych calling for the dismissal of Anatoly Mohylyov, Minister of the Interior, and providing grounds for this call.
“Stop Censorship!” is concerned over the criminal prosecutions of Oleksandr Volodarsky who is accused of hooliganism and flagrant disrespect for public morality and Dmytro Groisman, the Vinnytsa human rights activist charged with circulating pornography
He is accused of creating a criminal group which during the protests by small business owners at the end of last year allegedly caused damage to the state of more than 200 thousand UAH
03.03.11 | Yevhen Zakharov
An overview of the most worrying trends in Ukraine seen during 2010 with a significant deterioration in observance of most human rights and freedoms
The new Law on Personal Data Protection is already showing its fangs, with employees effectively being forced to consent to unlimited retention and use of even the most sensitive personal information
The Union’s statement points out the assertions from the authorities regarding freedom of speech, non-interference in the work of the media and free access to information are at odds with the actual situation
