Court recognised the failure to provide a walk to an arrested person as unlawful

The Syktyvkar City Court recognised as unlawful the failure to provide an administratively arrested person with a daily one-hour walk. Text of the decision from 12 May 2010.

Public oversight in Belarus

Legislative framework for the implementation of oversight of bodies and institutions executing punishments by public associations in Belarus.

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

All-Ukrainian working meeting-consultation “Development of the SDUEP in the treatment of HIV-positive prisoners”

On 8-10 June 2010, in Irpin, Kyiv region, the All-Ukrainian Charitable Foundation “Coalition of HIV-Service Organizations” organized and held an all-Ukrainian working meeting-consultation

The Annual Report on the observance of prisoners’ rights is being reviewed by state authorities

“Donetsk Memorial” has sent its fifth regular annual report, “Observance of Prisoners’ Rights in Ukraine-2010”, to a number of state institutions. The State Department for the Execution of Punishments has posted information about the report on its official website; responses have been sent by the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, the Commissioner for Human Rights, the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Human Rights, and the Department for the Execution of Punishments in the Donetsk Region.

Court recognised the refusal to admit a human rights activist into a colony as unlawful

The Judicial Collegium for Civil Cases of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Mordovia (Russia) on 25 May 2010 left unchanged the decision of the Oktyabrsky District Court of the city of Saransk dated 24 March 2010 on the recognition as unlawful of the actions of the head of FBU IK-18 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Republic of Mordovia.