Inquiry to the Head of the Department

To the Head of the Department for the Execution of Punishments, O. I. Halinsky
Melnykova St., 81, Kyiv, 04050

Dear Oleksandr Iulianovych!
The public organization “Donetsk Memorial” has received a press release from the Centre for Legal and Political Studies “SIM”, Lviv, regarding cases of the alleged beating of prisoners and the reaction of officials of the Department for the Execution of Punishments in the Lviv region to the appeals of representatives of the public.
We ask you to thoroughly check the information set out in the press release and report the results of the verification to the Centre for Legal and Political Studies “SIM” (address on the Centre’s letterhead) and “Donetsk Memorial”.
Regardless of whether the information about the alleged beating of prisoners is confirmed or not, I ask you to comment on the reaction of the officials of the Department in the Lviv region, namely regarding the ignoring of public appeals. Such actions very much resemble the concealment of socially important information and significantly strengthen suspicions that the prisoners were indeed brutally beaten and that the employees of the department are concealing these facts.
We will be sincerely grateful if you inform us of the results of the verification at the address:

PO Box 4836, Donetsk, 83092, to Oleksandr Bukalov
Thank you in advance.
Sincerely,
Oleksandr Bukalov
Chairman of the Penitentiary Society of Ukraine,
Head of the public human rights
organization “Donetsk Memorial”