13.12.02 | Inna Sukhorukova, Kharkov
Three former political prisoners: Vasyl Ovsienko, Zorian Popadiuk and Mykhaylo Kheyfets, meet in Kharkov.
13.12.02 | Vakhtang Kipiani, Kyiv
The detailed history of the publication of the first uncensored underground Ukrainian magazine „Ukrainskiy Visnyk“ and the history of its editors.
13.12.02 | Evhen Zakharov, the Kharkov Group for human rights protection
Criticism of the criticism of some procedures of the European Court of human rights.
13.12.02 | Inna Sukhorukova, Kharkov
The Law „On the alternative (non-military) service“ is discussed and criticized.
13.12.02
The article contains the results of the monitoring of the quality of the autumn-2001 recruiting campaign. The article also contains the description of concrete facts of conscripting recruits unsuitable for the army service.
13.12.02
(Press release of the attorney firm „Aggev, Berezhnoy and partners“). Appeal court of the Lugansk oblast started to consider the appeal of B. Feldman against the verdict of the Artemovskiy district court of Lugansk. Boris Feldman estoped against the prosecutors. His motive was that the prosecutors committed procedural felonies, when the case was considered by the first instance. He and his advocate handed the appeal court a copy of the decision of the Supreme Court the legal grounds for keeping Feldman under custody are absent, as well as the corresponding petition. The appeal court of the Lugansk oblast rejected the petition of Boris Feldman.
13.12.02
On 8 August 2002 the Kyiv appeal court satisfied the claim of Evhen Zakharov, a co-chairman of the Kharkov Group for human rights protection, against the decision of the Pecherskiy district court concerning the rejection of his claim about the passivity of the Kyiv city prosecutor’s office.
13.12.02
The Medjlis of Crimean Tatars intends to discuss the question about the restoration of kadiyat, the national court, whose duty is to consider civil conflicts between Crimean Tatars.
13.12.02
The Lviv oblast prosecutor’s office began to investigate the criminal case concerning the anti-Semitic publications.
13.12.02 | Mykola Korobko, Krivoy Rog
The events, which are occurring these days in Krivoy Rog, shows, it seems, that the communist party joined the opposition. The board for placing the communist press was dismounted by the order of the mayor. Poltava journalist L. Kucherenko vs. state officials. Ludmila Kucherenko, the editor-in-chief of the Poltava newspaper „Novy den“, turned to the oblast prosecutor’s office with the request to start a criminal case against state officials for impeding her legal journalistic activities. The Poltava town council impeded her activities by the refusal to give her the requested information about the town mayor.
13.12.02 | Evgeniy Zakharov, the Kharkov Group for human rights protection
The system of punishing administratively or criminally those law-enforcers, who brutally violate the laws, applying torture and degrading treatment is quite inadequate. The author shows in figures what a negligible proportion of claims and complaints result in a real punishment of the guilty.
13.12.02 | Oleksandr Stepanenko, Chortkiv
The former minister of interior bragged: "I have now a very tough team, they will do everything I will order“. He is right: militia chiefs train their subordinates as bloodhounds.
13.12.02 | Ludmila Klochko, Kharkov
The text confirms the heading describing some concrete cases of the illegal actions of law-enforcers.
13.12.02 | Igor Stoliarov, Odessa
Some facts characterizing the unbearable criminal situation in Odessa are described in the article.
