VILLAGERS DO NOT NEED A PRISON

Residents of the village of Dervizh in the Lviv region are protesting against their future proximity to correctional colonies

Public oversight of closed institutions: achievements and challenges

“Donetsk Memorial” held a “round table” on this topic in Donetsk. Based on its results, proposals were adopted to improve public oversight of Ministry of Internal Affairs institutions and the Department for the Execution of Sentences.

Outcome of the Gusev v. Russia Case

On 15 May, the European Court of Human Rights delivered its judgment in the case of ‘Gusev v. Russia’. The Court unanimously ruled that the applicant’s rights had been violated under Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (prohibition of torture, and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment) and Article 5(3) (right to release pending trial).

A thirty-year-old prisoner has died in the Lviv pre-trial detention centre

On Sunday, 30-year-old Ihor Mosiychuk (the surname has been changed. — Auth.), who died in the Lviv pre-trial detention centre, was buried at one of the Lviv cemeteries.

Russia—Champion of Complaints to the European Court

For several years now, Russia has held the leading position in terms of the number of appeals to the European Court of Human Rights. Currently, 20,300 complaints from Russia are being processed by this court..

Suicide at Konotop Correctional Centre No. 130

One of the prisoners at the correctional centre has hanged himself in protest against the tightening of the regime

Strasbourg court awards compensation to Perm prisoners

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has upheld a claim (“Dedovskiy and Others v. Russia”) by seven prisoners from a penal colony in the Perm region and awarded each of them 10,000 euros in compensation.

A diploma behind bars

This year, about 90 people are pursuing higher education in places of detention

Why are there hunger strikes in the Dnipropetrovsk colony?

In the Dnipropetrovsk Correctional Colony No. 89, several convicts serving life sentences declared a hunger strike on 12 May.

The curtailment of prisoners’ rights in the Department continues

The “Chernihiv Women’s Human Rights Centre” has appealed to the Department regarding the cancellation of opportunities for prisoners to take short-term leave due to exceptional circumstances and considers such an “innovation” by the agency to be a violation of the Constitution.

On the Concept of Reforming the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine.

everything written in the latest concept is nothing more than a *fata morgana* for the next 10 years.

Flash report on an emergency situation at the temporary detention facility of the UMVD of Ukraine in Sevastopol

According to the Vinnytsia Human Rights Group, despite the European Court of Human Rights ruling in the “Yakovenko v. Ukraine” case, brutal human rights violations continue in the Sevastopol temporary detention facility.