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Chernihiv region has one of the best situations with respect for the right to peaceful protest compared to other regions of Ukraine. However, there is a dangerous trend of increasing the number of unjust court injunctions. This was stated on January 25, 2013 at the Expert Club “Clean Politics” by human rights activists from the All-Ukrainian initiative “For Peaceful Protest!”…

The All-Ukrainian Initiative “For Peaceful Protest!” is a non-governmental, non-partisan public movement that was formed in 2011 and has already united around itself public activists and a coalition of 98 organizations that have been dealing with the issue of peaceful assemblies or exercising the right to protest for many years. The initiative’s activists have collected more than 18 thousand signatures…

In May 2012, a plan of joint activities of the Chernihiv Oblast Internal Affairs Department and the Public Council under the Department of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the Chernihiv Oblast was agreed upon for 2012, including participation in the work of “round tables”, training seminars, and other events, and a schedule of visits and the composition of mobile groups…

Of the 16 cities of regional and district significance of Chernihiv region, none of them have general plans available to the public. This opinion was reached by representatives of the Chernihiv Public Committee for the Protection of Human Rights and the Mayu Pravo Non-Governmental Organization, having completed monitoring the official websites of cities of regional and district significance of Chernihiv…

The reaction of the prosecutor’s office to the concealment of the general plans of the cities of Chernihiv region from citizens can now be found on the website www.cityplan.in.ua. The web resource contains the responses of the prosecutor’s offices to complaints from public organizations regarding the restriction of citizens’ access to urban planning documentation of the cities of Ukraine. This…

The European Court of Human Rights, in its decision in the case of Koval and Others v. Ukraine dated November 15, 2012, recognized that a resident of Chernihiv, Mykhailo Koval, and his relatives were tortured by police officers. In particular, the European Court recognized that Mr. Koval, his wife, and his son were subjected to cruel treatment by law enforcement…

Only every third surveyed resident of Chernihiv region (37.4%) said that they trust the police. The results of the study show that the level of citizens’ trust in state institutions is generally low. However, despite the rather low trust indicators, the police are among the three most trusted public institutions (after the Church and the Armed Forces).

These are the…