Current developments in Ukraine’s prison system and in the field of human rights protection in places of detention. This section publishes information materials and reports on the activities of human rights organisations. It keeps the public, legal professionals and relatives of detainees informed about the observance of citizens’ rights in closed institutions.
In Simferopol's SIZO-2, the occupiers are holding dozens of people incommunicado — CTRC
According to the Crimean Tatar Resource Centre, Russian occupiers may be holding dozens of people in complete isolation from the outside world on the third floor of SIZO-2 in Simferopol. We report on this and once again recall the Crimean SIZOs where citizens of Ukraine are being illegally detained, and the enforced disappearances committed by the RF.
Appellate Court releases Viktor Sleptsov: a decision that should have been taken immediately
Today, 18 November, the Vinnytsia Region Court of Appeal, presided over by Judge Serhii Medvetskyi, ruled to release Viktor Sleptsov — a 68-year-old terminally ill prisoner serving a life sentence with stage IV cancer.
When pain is a sentence: the story of Viktor Sleptsov, who is dying in a Vinnytsia prison without the right to relief
For years, Ukraine has faced a profound yet largely unnoticed problem: the state’s inability to release terminally ill convicts even when medicine is powerless. Formally, the law allows for this. But in reality?
Over 200 life-term prisoners have died behind bars in seven and a half years — Health Care Centre of the State Penitentiary Service
The high mortality rate due to illness among life-term prisoners in Ukraine is a consequence of the systemic blocking of their release by the prosecutor's office and the courts. We present statistics and specific tragic cases that testify to prosecutorial formalism and violations of the right to life.
‘The detention of the Oleksiyivska Penal Colony leadership is nothing short of a miracle’
Ed.: Lawyer Hennadii Tokarev has been battling everyone for over five years: the administration of OVK-25, the prosecutor’s office, the State Bureau of Investigation, and judges. All to punish those guilty of the brutal torture of convicts. Recently, the case has seemingly moved forward just a little. But what are its prospects?
A trap behind bars
How the state neglects its citizens. The Bilenke tragedy.
Release from serving a sentence due to health conditions
Lawyers at the KHPG have created a step-by-step guide for convicts who have the right to be released due to serious illnesses and wish to apply to us for legal assistance.
Condemned to agony: problems regarding release from penal institutions due to serious illness
Untimely diagnosis, the absence of medical care in places of detention, protracted judicial processes, and decisions contradicting ECHR practice — these issues were discussed by experts during a round table at the Office of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights.
The President has signed a bill introducing a new type of punishment — probationary supervision
Read more about Bill No. 9185 in the article by the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group.
This year, the KHPG has provided humanitarian aid to five hundred prisoners
As part of the DIGNITY project, the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group provides assistance to prisoners who, due to hostilities, find themselves in extremely dire conditions, having lost their social ties.
Blood business: leadership of the notorious Berdiansk Colony No. 77 detained
Today, we refer to the places where Russians hold Ukrainian prisoners as ‘torture chambers’. Before the war, human rights defenders used this term to describe several Ukrainian colonies. The Berdiansk colony was the most terrifying of them all.