Death in a Kirovohrad remand prison: was it murder or not?

The versions provided by law enforcement and human rights activists differ fundamentally.

In the Zaporizhzhia region, a prison employee himself became an inmate because of cannabis

The Zaporizhzhia District Court sentenced an employee of the Bilenkivska correctional colony to 5 years and 3 months of imprisonment.

Free legal aid for convicts

From the experience of cooperation between the charitable organisation “Chernihiv Women’s Human Rights Centre”, the supervisory commission, executive authorities, and local self-government bodies on the provision of free legal aid to convicts and released persons

Act of disobedience in a correctional colony

84 convicts have announced an indefinite hunger strike in protest against the overly harsh regime and conditions of detention, and inhumane treatment by the administration. Appeal to the public.

A wave of violence is spreading in correctional colonies

STATEMENT by the human rights organisation “Donetsk Memorial” regarding unjustified violence against convicts in penal institutions

Incitement to suicide in Zhytomyr Correctional Colony No. 4

Unable to withstand the abuse by the colony’s operative, convict Kh. attempted suicide.

Unrest occurred in the Nizhny Tagil colony

The Centre for Prisoner Support, citing the relatives of convicts, reported unrest in the Nizhny Tagil maximum-security colony USh 349/12.

Prisoners in the Yakutsk pre-trial detention centre have announced a hunger strike

Several dozen prisoners in the Yakutsk pre-trial detention centre have announced a hunger strike in protest of “dissatisfaction with the conditions of detention”.

Does the law regarding those sentenced to death have retroactive effect?

Was the replacement of the death penalty with life imprisonment lawful? The practice of amending norms that were no longer in effect gave rise to a negative trend in judicial practice regarding the replacement of the death penalty with life imprisonment and defining the latter as a worthy and well-founded alternative to the exceptional measure of punishment.

Who will stop the “State Department of Torture”?! STATEMENT

Another suicide in the Bila Tserkva Correctional Colony No. 35.

Detainee dies in hospital after being brutally beaten in Kirovohrad pre-trial detention centre

Tonight, 22-year-old Anatolii LEVCHUN, who was brutally beaten in the Kirovohrad pre-trial detention centre, died in the hospital.

The Department has introduced a visitation tax

Staff at the pre-trial detention centre are demanding that citizens who have brought parcels to the centre or who wish to visit a relative purchase and complete special application forms.