Beatings at the Kirovohrad pre-trial detention centre

The mother of the young man beaten in the Kirovohrad pre-trial detention centre: Doctors give no guarantee that my son will survive

Mobile groups – development issues

The publication ‘Mobile groups in the Ministry of Internal Affairs: practice, analysis, recommendations’ has been released – the first thorough summary of the monitoring activities of two mobile groups – in Donetsk Oblast and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

Horodyshche, Kharkiv, and then everywhere?

Prisoners beaten during a ‘search’ at the Kharkiv pre-trial detention centre

Emergency at the 96th Colony

Convicts beaten again. So they don’t dare to complain?

Irkutsk GUFSIN employees to face trial for beating prisoners

On 21 May, Irkutsk investigators transferred a criminal case to court against five GUFSIN employees suspected of beating prisoners

Sverdlovsk temporary detention facility prisoners protest against humiliating treatment by staff

As long as improper treatment of prisoners in temporary detention facilities continues, they will ‘cut themselves’

Two convicts died in the Voznesensk correctional colony

Tragic incident at the Voznesensk correctional colony in the Mykolaiv region.

Authority figure who escaped from the colony detained

Officers of the Lviv Department for Combating Organised Crime detained the criminal Kostiantyn Lytvynenko, known in criminal circles as ‘Rambo’, in the town of Rohatyn, Ivano-Frankivsk region, on 22 May at approximately 16:00.

‘Mother’s Day’ in a women’s colony

On 13 May 2009, a team from the Luhansk Regional Charitable Foundation ‘Teenager’, the Leninsky district centre for social services for family, children, and youth in the city of Luhansk, and students of the Luhansk State University paid a visit to the Sverdlovsk correctional colony No. 68.

Kirovohrad prisoners to create a poster that will influence the HIV epidemic

For many years, on the third Sunday of May, millions of people around the world have commemorated those who have died from AIDS. For the third consecutive year, HIV-infected convicts at Kirovohrad Correctional Colony No. 6 are holding their own events to mark this date.

A landmark decision by the European Court of Human Rights

The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) has won a case against Hungary regarding freedom of information. For the first time, the right of access to state information, provided for by Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, has been officially recognised.

About 80 prisoners in Oleksandria cleaned up the city park.

About 80 prisoners in Oleksandria joined the spring clean-up and cleaned up the city park.