First handbook for prisoners in Volyn presented

Its publication was made possible thanks to the project by the Volyn Association for the Protection of Youth Rights, “Improving access to legal knowledge for persons in places of detention”, supported by the International Renaissance Foundation.

Suicide

A week after the prisoner’s suicide, the department posted a notification on its website

The European Court of Human Rights has delivered its first ruling regarding detention conditions in Stryzhavka Correctional Colony No. 81

Vinnytsia Human Rights Group (press release)

Nurgaliyev has allowed human rights activists to speak with detainees under supervision

The Head of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Rashid Nurgaliyev, has issued an order explaining the mechanism for human rights activists or other public organisations to inspect the conditions of detention for those arrested and temporarily detained in remand centres, special reception facilities, centres for minors, and other detention premises.

Amnesty International calls for lifting the veil of secrecy surrounding the death penalty

Publishing summary statistics for 2007, Amnesty International calls on governments of all countries to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding the death penalty.

Discrimination against prisoners in Ukraine remains an insurmountable problem

Punitive measures are applied to protesting prisoners. Press conference on the Fourth Annual Report on Compliance with Prisoners’ Rights in Ukraine-2008

Press conference: How prisoners’ rights were observed in 2008

“Ukrainian News” agency On 23 April at 11:00 in the press centre of the “Ukrainian News” agency, a press conference of the human rights organisation “Donetsk Memorial” will be held on the topic: “How prisoners’ rights were observed in 2008”.

Are special units continuing to beat convicts?

For over a week, alarming events have been taking place in the Bryanka Penal Colony No. 11 (Luhansk Region). Reports of casualties have been received.

Who will stop the ‘State Department of Torture’?!

On the morning of 20 April 2009, convict Viktor Gurin committed suicide in the Bila Tserkva Penal Colony No. 35.

No phones – yet phones exist

Journalists and public figures learn a great deal of information about various ‘mishaps’ in the Kherson penal institutions via calls from colonies or pre-trial detention centres. But, unfortunately, it is not the staff who call first, but the convicts and those under arrest.

Round table: ‘Human rights protection in conditions of serving a sentence’

The All-Ukrainian Charitable Foundation ‘Legal Initiative’ held a round table, ‘Human rights protection in conditions of serving a sentence’, with the participation of non-governmental organisations working with prisoners in the penal institutions of the Kyiv region.

Escape from the colony

On the afternoon of 2 April, a convict escaped from the Belozerska Penal Colony No. 105. He was apprehended in Simferopol a day later.