‘Open letter to the authorities of Ukraine regarding gross violations in the Kyiv Pre-trial Detention Centre’

Despite the lack of confirmation of the facts set forth in the ‘Open Letter’, their description does not seem improbable. Unfortunately, reports about the actions of personnel of the department’s institutions, which resemble the actions of the pre-trial detention centre administration, are periodically received by human rights organisations.
Perhaps the only thing that is not entirely accurate is the author of the letter’s assertion that “50% are released”. According to data from the ‘Donetsk Memorial’, this share is slightly more than 20%. Exact information for each year is contained in the organisation’s annual Reports.
In addition, for the author of the ‘Open Letter’, it might have been appropriate to direct it primarily to the department’s leadership. It is precisely the department’s leadership that can respond promptly to the situation, especially since it is the one that primarily bears responsibility for ensuring human rights in its institutions.
An appeal to Yushchenko and Tymoshenko a couple of weeks before the elections might be effective, but in our opinion, it is unlikely to be efficient. At the very least, a prompt reaction is hardly to be expected from the addressees of the ‘Open Letter’.