Information website of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group

Information website of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group [javascript:history.back()] version: Ukrainian | Russian News » Projects Monthly bulletin Prava Ludyny (Human rights) » –olitics and human rights » Law enforcement agencies » The penal system » Our CIS neighbours » On refugees » Other topics Research » The constitution and human rights » Against torture and ill-treatment » The right to liberty and security » The right to a fair trial » The right to privacy » Access to information » Freedom of expression » Freedom of peaceful assembly » Prevention of discrimination and inequality » Prisoners' rights » The Security service in a constitutional democracy » Analysis of the human rights situation in Ukraine » Human rights and civil society » The history of dissent in Ukraine » Publications » —ampaigns » Archives KHPG » About us » Reports » Guestbook To receive our regular mailings, please leave your email » authorization » registration the version for mobile phone khpg.org/wap The website is created with assistance of the International Renaissance Foundation and National Endowment for Democracy (USA) 22.09.2009 Another turn-around in the defamation case against УBlitz-InformФ and Maxim Birovash A year after the dramatic reversal of a massive compensation award, a new court ruling has partially allowed the claim for moral compensation by Yury Sidorenko from the consortium SSAPS [Single State Automated Passport System] »» 22.09.2009 UHHRU Legal Opinion on the Draft Law on Peaceful Assembly The Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union believes that the draft law will significantly narrow the scope of existing freedom of peaceful assembly and lead to social tension due to the unwarranted stopping of peaceful assembly »» 21.09.2009 Halya Coynash . The Demjanjuk Case: Moral Hollywood Instead of the culmination of the Nuremberg process and the triumphant renewal of justice, we again have a show trial which elicits a worried feeling that the organizers want an easy myth, while both they and the public as a whole show a stubborn reluctance to learn any real lessons »» 21.09.2009 Ivan Svitlychny: УIf not me, then who?Ф УI understood for the first time that real patriotism - not just that for show, is always quiet, serious and civic and not narrowly ethnic. With Ivan it was even something sacredly light.Ф (Zinoviy Antonyuk) »» 21.09.2009 In Memory: Alla Horska and Ivan Svitlychny The two pivotal figures of the 1960s УShistdesyatnykyФ would have turned 80 this week. They were close friends and even celebrated their Уjoint seventieth birthdayФ (each was 35) in 1964 »» 21.09.2009 Committee of Voters of Ukraine Monitoring Report CVU considers that the amendments to the Law on the Presidential Elections and other laws pertaining to the elections, passed by the Verkhovna Rada, place the holding of transparent and democratic elections in jeopardy »» 18.09.2009 Strasbourg finds against Russia over three more cases in Chechnya and Ingushetia In cases involving disappearances in Chechnya and a killing in Ingushetia, the European Court of Human Rights found, among others, violations of the right to life and that the authoritiesТ treatment of the victimsТ families constituted inhuman treatment »» 18.09.2009 Ludmila Alexeeva: There will be victims again in Russia. After all human rights defenders are considered traitors and enemies of the present system UHHRU interviews with human rights defenders from Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus and Georgia »» 18.09.2009 Human rights defenders demand end to persecution of the Novorossiysk Human Rights Committee The court ruling sought by the Novorossiysk ProsecutorТs Office would be the first case where a human rights organization was prohibited as extremist. »» 18.09.2009 Plans for single record of human trafficking victims If the plan is carried out, a single register will be kept by departments of the Ministry for the Family, Youth and Sport in regional (oblast) and Kyiv and Sevastopol city administrations »» 17.09.2009 Russian journalist with asylum in Ukraine called in for questioning УThe Ukrainian police have, in my view and my lawyer agrees, violated Ukrainian legislation over the fact that Ukraine has already granted me refugee status" »» 17.09.2009 Criminal investigation over suspected trafficking involving sailors The firm offered 17 sailors work as fishermen in Europe however the men ended up in a fishing trawler near Africa where for several months they worked without pay and in inhuman conditions »» 17.09.2009 Environmentalist protest over the possible destruction of the Ukrainian steppe Environments are critical of the State Forestry Development Programme and warn of its possible adverse consequences for the loss of natural steppe lands, as well as plants and animals included in UkraineТs Red Book »» 16.09.2009 Memorial: On the Seventieth Anniversary of 17 September 1939 The Pact between Stalin and Hitler and the subsequent events Ц the invasion of Poland, first by the Wehrmacht and then by the Red Army Ц are among the most shameful pages of EuropeТs history. »» 16.09.2009 After PukachТs arrest, the instigators are still untouched The Gongadze Inquiry: An investigation into the failure of legal and judicial processes in the case of Georgy Gongadze »» p. : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 »» Articles • Draft Constitution of Ukraine Vsevolod Rechytsky This new draft Constitution with article by article commentary is based on the modern understanding of human rights protection • The Limited Force of Fine Words Halya Coynash True freedom brings with it responsibility. Without this words remain a cheap commodity offered for a song by those wishing to use us for their own ends • УThe God-imposed aimФ of Alexander SolzhenitsynТs life Myroslav Marynovych Reflections on the gratitude due Solzhenitsyn, on inevitable causes for reproach and on the issue of repentance and acknowledgement of the crime of communism • Political УMonopolyФ Halya Coynash We are seeing politicians openly using and abusing their УassetsФ, otherwise known as State bodies in their battle to retain, gain or deprive others of power. Most disturbingly, they are equally blunt in their attempts to influence the judiciary • Opinion: Legal classification of Holodomor 1932-1933 in Ukraine and in Kuban as a crime against humanity and genocide Yevhen Zakharov On the grounds for classifying Holodomor 1932-1933 as a crime against humanity and as genocide in accordance with international law • Crisis of political genre Halya Coynash It has become virtually impossible to differentiate between political events and their reflection in the media, and it is politicians themselves who contribute most to this. They donТt balk at any genre, and the media unfortunately are all too eager to go along with them • Open Letter from KHPG regarding the organization УPatriot of UkraineФ Hiding behind fine slogans, the organization УPatriot of UkraineФ through its actions discredits and dishonours the very concept of patriotism 0.5912