Security Service of Ukraine

Houses of Crimean Tatars raided in Bakhchisarai
News - 20 October 2016

Houses of Crimean Tatars raided in Bakhchisarai

The raid was reasoned by a photo depicting a Crimean Tatar with Crimea blockade coordinator Lenur Islyamov

‘Chingis’ was scrapping my skull with knife, admiring all the cracking there’ – report
News - 17 October 2016

‘Chingis’ was scrapping my skull with knife, admiring all the cracking there’ – report

Human rights defenders tell about tortures against Ukrainian servicemen in Donbas

Ex-PM Yatsenyuk tells about interrogations in Maidan case
News - 13 October 2016

Ex-PM Yatsenyuk tells about interrogations in Maidan case

Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk has once again come to the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine for interrogation in the case of crimes against Euromaidan activists

People freed from ‘death camps’ of Donbas militants tell about tortures
News - 23 September 2016

People freed from ‘death camps’ of Donbas militants tell about tortures

111 citizens of Ukraine are still held captive by the illegal armed groups in Donbas

Eight torture chambers functioning in Donetsk, Luhansk
News - 23 September 2016

Eight torture chambers functioning in Donetsk, Luhansk

Some torture chambers are located in remand prisons and former premises of the SBU departments

Ukraine’s Security Service expels from Ukraine Russian woman, who asked for asylum
News - 13 September 2016

Ukraine’s Security Service expels from Ukraine Russian woman, who asked for asylum

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) forcibly expelled from Ukraine a citizen of Russia, who was deported from Turkey, and who asked for asylum in Ukraine

Visit of UN SPT to Ukraine’s Security Service premises: Service’s report, thoughts of human rights defenders
News - 12 September 2016

Visit of UN SPT to Ukraine’s Security Service premises: Service’s report, thoughts of human rights defenders

The delegation received unfettered and immediate access to all the SBU premises, the Security Service assures

Ukrainian Inter TV channel blocked for two days already
News - 06 September 2016

Ukrainian Inter TV channel blocked for two days already

Journalists of Inter and NTN TV channels cannot get to their jobs in the main TV center of the Inter Media Group for the second day in the row

UN Subcommittee makes first visit within search for ‘secret prisons’
News - 05 September 2016

UN Subcommittee makes first visit within search for ‘secret prisons’

The delegation of the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture inspected the premises of Ukraine’s Security Service investigation department in Lviv

UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture to inspect Ukrainian prisons on September 5-9
News - 01 September 2016

UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture to inspect Ukrainian prisons on September 5-9

Will it succeed in finding SBU secret prisons this time?

People freed from secret SBU prison in Kharkiv give comments to international human rights defenders
News - 28 August 2016

People freed from secret SBU prison in Kharkiv give comments to international human rights defenders

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch say that illegally detained people were released after their July report “You Don’t Exist”

Ukrainian Security Service says it powerless against website Myrotvorets
News - 12 July 2016

Ukrainian Security Service says it powerless against website Myrotvorets

The Security Service of Ukraine has stated that Ukraine lacks the mechanisms to block the controversial website Myrotvorets

OHCHR report: Militants establish their courts to legitimize human rights abuses by illegal armed groups
News - 30 June 2016

OHCHR report: Militants establish their courts to legitimize human rights abuses by illegal armed groups

Unfair trials cannot provide justice for victims of serious human rights violations and violations of international humanitarian law, UN stresses

PGO detains four ex-Berkut officers suspected of murders on Maidan
News - 24 June 2016

PGO detains four ex-Berkut officers suspected of murders on Maidan

The detainees are working in the National Police of Ukraine

Ukrainian Security Service may put ‘Motorola’ militant on international wanted list again
News - 19 June 2016

Ukrainian Security Service may put ‘Motorola’ militant on international wanted list again

Interpol does not search for people accused of participation in illegal armed groups

Ukraine’s Security Service ready to accept delegation of UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
News - 17 June 2016

Ukraine’s Security Service ready to accept delegation of UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture

The delegation will be allowed to visit any premises any time

Security Service’s pretrial detention facility in Kyiv being inspected off-schedule
News - 06 June 2016

Security Service’s pretrial detention facility in Kyiv being inspected off-schedule

Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Valeria Lutkovska, Chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine Vasyl Hrytsak and Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko took part in the inspection

Chechnya court sentences Karpyuk to 22.5 years in prison, Klykh to 20 years in prison
News - 26 May 2016

Chechnya court sentences Karpyuk to 22.5 years in prison, Klykh to 20 years in prison

Both Ukrainians signed a statement to appeal against the court's decision