Colonies in the Kharkiv region are provided with bread

All correctional facilities in the Kharkiv region will be fully provided with bread, regardless of whether flour prices rise due to a grain shortage or not.

“My soul has never seen such beauty anywhere”

For the first time in Ukraine, a camp has been organised for children whose parents are serving sentences in places of deprivation of liberty.

Torture by the police is not an isolated incident, but a systemic phenomenon

On 28 July at 10:30, the next “FIST” campaign begins

An exhibition of works by convicted minors will open at the Ukrainian House

On 23 July, an exhibition of works by convicted minors will open at the Ukrainian House in Kyiv within the framework of the project “Protection of the rights of at-risk children: a drawing competition among minors in penal institutions”.

In Russian prisons, the scale of tuberculosis, HIV and syphilis incidence is close to an epidemic

Just under half — 340,000 out of 846,000 convicts in Russian correctional facilities suffer from some kind of disease

Experts on the problems of prisoners with hearing impairments

The problems of people with hearing loss or impairment who have been under investigation and in places of deprivation of liberty were discussed by participants of a round table at the Independent Press Centre (Moscow). Such a person, when ending up in a pre-trial detention centre or a colony, finds themselves in an information vacuum, and their rights are infringed upon.

European Court decision on the mass beating of prisoners in Iziaslav Colony No. 58 published

Davydov and Others v. Ukraine (applications no. 17674/02 and 39081/02) (ill-treatment of prisoners by a special unit during training exercises)

Echoes of the Great Victory in the hearts of young men who broke the law

The “Chervona Kalyna” festival of creative mastery for the wards of the Perevalsk correctional colony took place on 26 June. Out of 150 young men serving sentences, about 80 people took part in the festival.

On the beginning of an open-ended street protest

On 22 June 2010, an open-ended street protest “No! To Lawlessness” began near the walls of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine.

European Court to issue new Judgment on torture by police

On 01 July, the European Court of Human Rights will announce two new Judgments on Russian cases concerning violations of Article 3 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms — the beating of the first applicant by police officers and the lack of an effective investigation into this fact, as well as the conditions of detention of the second applicant, respectively.

In Kherson, a new approach to tuberculosis treatment has been introduced

The real scale of the spread of tuberculosis in Ukraine is activating not only doctors responsible for treatment and prevention but also representatives of non-governmental and religious organisations to counter the epidemic.

Convicts in Zaporizhzhia to be helped to defeat tuberculosis

According to estimates by community workers, only 10% of those released from places of detention in Zaporizhzhia who require tuberculosis treatment visit the city’s anti-tuberculosis hospitals