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Ukraine: “prisons are left on their own”
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Information about prison is not easily accessible, even less during the war. Prison Insider is seeking to update its information about Ukrainian prisons.
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Russia/Ukraine: Prisoners of war must be protected from public curiosity under Geneva Convention
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In recent days, the Ukrainian authorities have brought Russian prisoners of war to press conferences to discuss their roles in the military invasion, and videos on social media have also shown captured soldiers contacting family members in Russia. Videos of captured Ukrainian soldiers have also app…
Source — Amnesty International
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Zelensky said the decision was ‘not easy from the moral point of view’but he stressed that the defence of the nation was now the highest priority.
Source — The Daily Mail
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A Ukrainian organisation defending human rights shares its concerns regarding the situation of prisoners.
Source — OMCT
Read more Ukraine : Un ancien détenu d’une prison secrète du Donbass raconte
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On 11 March, the Ukrainian government announced a nationwide quarantine, and at the same time its Ministry of Justice changed the rules governing the work of pre-trial detention centres and prison colonies. Meetings with families were banned (video links were permitted) and both staff and inmates h…
Source — openDemocracy
Read more Ukraine: los presos votan en la segunda vuelta de las elecciones presidenciales
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KIEV: Around 20 men are crammed into the foul-smelling cell, where cockroaches wander across the walls and barred windows.
Source — The Time of India
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On October 4th, 2017. Prison Insider’s correspondent, Ukraine Without Torture, together with employees from the Secretariat of the Ombudsman undertook a monitoring visit of the Lychakiv correctional center (No. 30). The center is located in the Lviv Oblast (West Ukraine) and holds about 600 prisone…
Source — Ukraine Without Torture
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"Surviving hell" in Eastern Ukraine
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Prison Insider’s correspondents in Ukraine shared several materials describing the conditions of detention in the Donbas region, in the East of the country. It is composed of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. Due to the crisis which started in 2014, Ukraine is divided between the so-called pro Europ…
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The prosecutor’s office informed, on the 17th of August, that a detainee had killed and dismembered an inspector from the State Prison Service at the Odessa Pre-trial Detention Center (SIZO) No. 21. The murder occurred in the SIZO economic block where the prisoner was working.
Source — Ukraine Without Torture
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In the report on its November 2016 visit to Ukraine, published today, the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) expresses serious concern about the frequency of allegations of ill-treatment by police officers (such as slap…
Source — Council of Europe
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Un récent rapport de l’ONG de protection des droits de l’homme Eastern Human Rights Group a dénoncé les conditions de vie des 5 000 prisonniers qui peuplent les établissements pénitentiaires de l’Est de l’Ukraine, dans les oblasts de Louhansk et Donetsk. Depuis la sécession de ces territoires en 20…
Source — Atlantico
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Just three days after Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr Lazarenko was taken prisoner in the war in Ukraine’s east, a peace agreement was signed under which the sides agreed to an “all-for-all” prisoner exchange. A year and a half later, his wife still waits desperately for his return.
Source — Daily mail
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Source — RFI
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Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch investigated in detail nine cases of arbitrary, prolonged detention of civilians by the Ukrainian authorities in informal detention sites and nine cases of arbitrary,prolonged detention of civilians by Russia-backed separatists.
This report details cases…
Source — Amnesty International
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Selon un rapport réalisé par Amnesty International et l’ONG Human Rights Watch, présenté jeudi, plusieurs dizaines de personnes ont été ou sont toujours arbitrairement détenues dans un centre situé dans le nord-est du pays.
Source — Libération, Amnesty International & Human Rights Watch
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