Events

POLICE – WITH THE PEOPLE!

The composition of such a mobile group in Chernihiv region includes a representative of the Chernihiv Public Committee for the Protection of Human Rights, Nataliya Romanova, and a representative of the Chernihiv Women’s Human Rights Center, Valentyna Badyra. During the first visit, the group visited Chernihiv, Mensky, and Sosnytsky districts of Chernihiv region. The group members saw what the ITTs…

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FREEDOM! SOLIDARITY! INDEPENDENCE!

The Chernihiv Public Committee for the Protection of Human Rights has been following the progress of this case from the very beginning. The interests of the victims are represented by the committee’s lawyer, Oleksandr Trofimov, whose efforts have not stopped the investigation of this case, which has recently become a rarity in cases of crimes committed by law enforcement agencies.…

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PUBLIC RECEPTION ACTIVITIES

The seminar participants noted that the problem of free legal aid is acute in Ukraine. First of all, it affects the socially vulnerable segments of the population. If in a criminal case the state necessarily provides the accused with a defense attorney, then in civil cases the entire financial burden of paying for the lawyer’s services falls on the shoulders…

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TORTURE AND INHUMAN TREATMENT

On February 27, 2002, at about 6 p.m., police officer L., while performing his official duties, met V.O. Ovsienko near the intersection of Herzen and Gagarina streets in Chernihiv. He brought him to public law enforcement station No. 4, located at 8 Gagarina street, to check the latter’s involvement in the theft of citizens’ personal property. At that time, senior…

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FORCED EVICTION

Representatives of the Chernihiv Public Committee for the Protection of Human Rights were somewhat ahead of the bailiffs and managed to talk to the owners of the house, Tsarenko Lyudmila Mykhailivna and Glotko Volodymyr Mykolayovych, who told us very interesting facts. The house in question was inherited by a deceased relative of the residents. The inheritance was certified and formalized…

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TORTURE AND INHUMAN TREATMENT

Since my son was not at home and he owned the hammer drill legally, as evidenced by the case materials (the interrogation protocol of Maksym Yevhenovich Omelyanenko dated June 19, 2003, which showed that the Bosch Hammer hammer drill and the Bosch angle grinder were purchased with the money earned by me, Dmitry Bryk (Koval) and Yuriy Omelyanenko), I refused…

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ATTACK ON HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER

The brutal attack on him, associated with an attempt to physically destroy him, in our opinion, is a confirmation of the negative trends that have recently appeared in our city. We are talking about the massive use of criminal methods in resolving controversial issues in the city. Since December 2004, several large businessmen have been killed in Chernihiv, some were…

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