Let Us Protect the Budget of Ukraine!

How “Donetsk Memorial” Struggles with the Ministry of Justice over Filling Ukraine’s State Budget

Ombudsman Wants to Expel ‘Special Forces’ from Pre-Trial Detention Centres

Within the structure of the State Penitentiary Service, special purpose units are operating without a proper regulatory and legal framework.

Maria Alyokhina: I Was Disciplined for Invoking Article 51 of the Constitution

Alexander Podrabinek speaks with Maria Alyokhina, one of the members of the group Pussy Riot, who is currently incarcerated. Maria Alyokhina talks about the conditions of her detention in the penal colony.

CPT Report on the 2011 Visit to Ukraine (Excerpt) and the Government’s Response

Report of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture on its visit to Ukraine from 29 November to 6 December 2011 (excerpt regarding the visit to pre-trial detention centres) and the Government’s response

"Look: this is the SHIZO, here they beat and kill"

In the Trans-Baikal Territory (Russia), preparations are underway for the trial of employees of the Krasnokamensk colony accused of torture.

Passportisation of persons convicted and released from places of detention

We appeal to public and charitable organisations with a request to share their experience and best practices for providing assistance in restoring passports and other documents.

Infant – victim of inhumane treatment

In an application to the European Court of Human Rights against Ukraine concerning torture and inhumane treatment in a pre-trial detention centre (SIZO), a 5-month-old infant, S., and his 22-year-old mother, K., are suing the state.

Crimean convicts threaten mass suicide

In Kerch Correctional Centre No. 139, prisoners are prepared to commit mass suicide as a protest against the new management of the penal institution

On the problems of organising the activities of supervisory commissions in Ukraine: the case of the Kharkiv region

The purpose of this article is to identify the problems in the organisation of the activities of the supervisory commissions of the Kharkiv region and to formulate some proposals for their resolution

Outsiders are not welcome here

Everything that we have learned about prisons in Russia over the last four years, we know from the Public Monitoring Commission (ONK). Hunger strikes, cutting veins in protest, criminal cases regarding riots and mass beatings of convicts, investigations into sudden deaths and suicides of inmates — members of the ONK tell us about all of this.

Vladimir Putin has abolished suspended sentences for repeat offenders

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed amendments to Article 73 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which exclude the possibility of suspended sentences for repeat offenders and individuals who have committed grave crimes.

Special forces enter rioting prison in St. Petersburg

More than a hundred officers from the Ministry of Internal Affairs' penal system committee are participating in an operation at St. Petersburg’s Correctional Colony No. 6 in Obukhovo.