A shocking case where in order to improve their figures on solved crimes, police officers allegedly used torture to beat out confessions and then violence and abduction to prevent an investigation by the prosecutor's office
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The State Committee for Nationalities and Religion has granted refugee status to Mikhail Gangan a member of the National Bolshevik Party (led by Edward Limonov) which is banned in Russia
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Ukraine’s Security Service is to make public the first list of Party and Soviet figures, heads of the punitive bodies, as well as documents signed by them personally which formed the organizational and legal basis for committing Holodomor in Ukraine and mass repression.
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A WorldPublicOpinion.org poll of 19 nations finds that in 14 of them most people favour an unequivocal rule against torture, even in the case of terrorists who have information that could save innocent lives
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The National Television and Radio Broadcasting Council has informed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of possible consequences for those foreign television channels which play on language issues or the subject of Russian – Ukrainian relations.
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The Cabinet of Ministers placed the function of specially authorized central body on migration matters in the hands of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
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We should watch out for criminals, not for people of a certain race. The law enforcement agencies undoubtedly have a tough and complicated task, however primitive methods only generate new problems and contribute to a rise in racism and xenophobia
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59-year-old Viktor Natalukha from the town of Makiyivka in the Donetsk region was awarded moral damages over the wrongful initiating of a criminal investigation against him
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In a study just published, only 1.2% of those surveyed said that the situation with regard to legal protection had significantly improved over the last three years, while 20.9% answered that it had become considerably worse
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This is the number of people freed because the investigations are terminated by the criminal investigation or detective inquiry units; the preventive measure is changed; the case is terminated by the courts and through acquittals; suspended sentences etc
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KHPG Co-Chair Yevhen Zakharov echoes criticism from a PACE Co-Rapporteur of the Ukrainian authorities’ investigations into high-profile crimes and points to political pressure on the Prosecutor
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The Mejilis of the Crimean Tatar people does not oppose a register to record State assistance provided, but any register must be well-thought out and the present plans are not far off taking fingerprints en masse
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Svitlana Zaitseva had “confessed” to the crime during the criminal investigation, apparently under duress. She died of tuberculosis contracted in prison
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Halya Coynash Why do we tolerate untruth in the media? On the vital force of outrage at being conned and treated like idiots in the fight against paid news items, propaganda and other lies
Halya Coynash On a repulsive Hitler doll, fighting stereotypes and shoddy journalism and on some success in asserting our right to truthful information
Approach us when you are offered “sensational information” concerning Ukraine. We are NOT asking that you take our word for it. Quite the contrary – we would ask you to check all information and present differing points of view.
This is what all of us, including your audiences, are entitled to expect.
Halya Coynash They say that news travels fast. So, unfortunately, do lies. The speed with which the “story” described below reached quite different media outlets has made many people in Ukraine question whether it, so to speak, travelled, or was transported. Be that as it may, other questions also beg our consideration
