http://khpg.org/ Human Rights in Ukraine. Information website of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group en http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1324423603 The SBU is now responsible for investigating “mass disturbances”, as well as any crimes believed to have been committed by a person under SBU investigation Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:26:43 +0300 http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1324423208 On Tuesday the panel of judges hearing former Prime Minister and opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko’s appeal rejected the defence’s application for the presiding judge Olena Sitailo to be withdrawn after she read out Ms Tymoshenko’s medical diagnosis Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:20:08 +0300 http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1324422880 The Court took the decision to give priority1 to the case, Tymoshenko v. Ukraine in view of the serious and sensitive nature of the allegations raised. Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:14:40 +0300 http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1324422638 Belarusians have been taking part in protests remembering the brutal crushing of protest after seriously flawed presidential elections one year ago Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:10:38 +0300 http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1324421564 The Association of Ukrainian Human Rights Monitors on Law Enforcement (UMDPL) held a roundtable on 19 December at which they presented the results of their monitoring of police observance of human rights during 2011 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:52:44 +0300 http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1324419210 The UN Human Rights Committee is to examine an appeal from Vladislav Kovalyov’s mother, following his sentence to death in a case which has prompted many human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, to express grave concern Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:13:30 +0300 http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1324421009 Former Prime Minister, Yulia Tymoshenko is outraged over the invasion of her privacy and is also demanding that the SIZO administration retract untruthful information about the conditions in which she is being held Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:43:29 +0300 http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1324335793 The recent efforts by the government to win over some members of the former Chernobyl clean-up workers’ movement and to marginalize others have coincided with worrying use of the police in Kharkiv against certain “dissident voices” within the movement Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:03:13 +0300 http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1324335420 15 members of the Coalition of Participants in the Orange Revolution and the Black Committee were detained on Monday outside the President’s Administration during a demonstration in favour of European integration Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:57:00 +0300 http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1324335012 As well as serious grounds for concern over the charges and the fact that Yury Lutsenko has now been held in detention for almost a year, there have also been a number of occasions where witnesses have denied saying what the protocols allege they said, or confirming that the acts he is charged in connection with are normal procedure Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:50:12 +0300