torture
Secret places of detention: What is Ukraine’s Security Service hiding from UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture?
This scandal has raised the problem of existence of SBU-controlled illegal places of detention, where people are suspected to be tortured. The problem is being put a blind eye to in Ukraine
Russian citizen Leonova says she was tortured by SBU officers
She also said she did not know any of the people who had been detained in the same case
Every second captive in Donbas tortured
According to the official data, 1,333 civilians, 27 journalists, and 38 volunteers were held captive.
Lawyers get evidence of torture on Stanislav Klykh
Thanks to the efforts of the European Court of Human Rights, the lawyers of Klykh received the outpatient registration log book and the medical records of Klykh
Human Rights Watch receives new evidence of crimes committed by Assad regime
The organization found out about 6,786 people, who had died in the prisons of Damascus in 2011-2013
Energy blockade activists not allow restoring electricity supply to annexed Crimea
The Right Sector threatens to terminate its participation in the blockade of Crimea if the supplies to the peninsula are restored
Prosecutor General’s Office asks to suspend from duty judges, who arrested Maidan activists
The judges are suspected of the violation of Part 2, Article 375 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (delivery of a knowingly unfair sentence, judgment, ruling or order by a judge)
Ukrainian teenager killed in Russian colony because of allegedly being nationalist
One teenager was killed and six more were hospitalized after the employees of the Belorechensk juvenile colony in Russia beat the convicts.
Human rights activists to submit evidence of Crimea occupation crimes to ICC
"The facts, which we are going to submit to the International Criminal Court, cover murders, tortures, and enforced disappearances."
Off the radars. What do captives of Donbas go through?
Today, on the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, we can speak about a phenomenon which has been a sort of parallel reality to us - the captives.
Three years of combating torture: has anything changed?
The visits of the National Preventive Mechanism monitors to colonies, boarding schools and psychiatric hospitals help to change conditions in these facilities.
Witness in Srebrenica massacre case found dead in Hague hotel
Dusan Dunjic was a defence witness in the war crimes case against former Bosnian Serb general.
Human rights activists collect testimonies of detainees in Donbas for the Hague
The detainees were tortured and were not provided with basic custodial conditions in illegal places of detention in Donbas.
Kyiv residents walk along ‘route of death’ paying tribute to Babi Yar victims
The march in memory of the innocent people, who were shot down in the Babi Yar 74 years ago, was held today in Kyiv.
Russian passports taken away from Crimean residents
The Crimean authorities seize previously issued Russian passports from people without a residence permit in the occupied peninsula.
Kyiv Prosecutor’s Office refuses initiate proceedings against Poroshenko
The lawyer will appeal against the actions of the Kyiv prosecutor’s office in the Pechersk district court of Kyiv, The first court hearing will be held on October 6.
International Media Group to Receive Complaints of Inciting Hatred
A special international working group is being set up to deal with complaints that cannot be addressed on the national level because of the risk of accusations of "lack of patriotism"
Human Rights Advocates Advise on How to Implement ECHR
On its official website, the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union (UHHRU) has posted recommendations to the government which will make it possible to implement the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Ukraine
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Ukrainian parliament appeals for NATO membership as foundation for lasting peace
Ukraine rejects “pacifying the aggressor” as a path to peace
“Appeasement never works”: Lessons from Bosnia’s post-war justice
Liberia demands Russia immediately halt aggression and restore Crimea to Ukraine
