Public oversight in Belarus

Legislative framework for the implementation of oversight of bodies and institutions executing punishments by public associations in Belarus.

Protect Your Rights

Procedure for applying to the European Court of Human Rights and conditions for submitting complaints — information from the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine. Contact details for representatives of the Government Agent for the European Court of Human Rights in all regions of Ukraine are provided.

How to challenge a formal investigation

A formal or negligently conducted investigation into a complaint of police beating can be challenged by referencing the text of the Instruction under which the investigation should have been conducted. The full text of the Instruction is provided.

Notary services are unavailable to convicts

One of the important issues not regulated by legislation is the matter of obtaining notary services by persons serving a sentence of imprisonment.

Russia’s penal labour traditions

If a prisoner writes complaints or attempts to appeal against decisions in court, they are told: 'If you don’t stop, we will send you to such-and-such a colony, and you understand yourself what will happen to you there.' And the prisoner knows perfectly well that they can be beaten, raped, humiliated, or even killed in a torture zone. Such a reputation does not exist without reason.

Are convicts in Kazakhstan's prisons tortured 'as a preventative measure'?

Human rights activists intend to investigate the case of a brutal beating of a convict in a Kazakh prison

Detention of individuals suffering from tuberculosis

Information from the Department of the State Department of Ukraine for the Execution of Punishments in the Donetsk Region for the meeting of the supervisory commission under the Donetsk Regional State Administration on the matter: “On the implementation of the requirements of the ‘Program for Overcoming the Tuberculosis Epidemic in the Donetsk Region for 2007–2011’ regarding the treatment of individuals suffering from tuberculosis who have been taken into custody in municipal specialized anti-tuberculosis healthcare institutions.”

Lawyer visits to convicts – according to the Instruction

In the Krasnoyarsk Territory (Russia), the visiting of convicts in penal colonies by lawyers is regulated by a specially adopted Instruction. The text of the Instruction

UN CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF MEN

UN CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF MEN. Text

Mr Stefanovsky maintains his standard

Do the institutions for the execution of punishments in the Volyn region need the help of public organisations, or how they kill the desire to help the criminal-executive system in Volyn.

Away from the GULAG! An outline of prison reform

The essence of the principle of moral idiocy in Ukrainian prisons lies in the denial of morality in the treatment of individuals whose conduct, by court decision, has been recognised as criminal. It is irrelevant that we will not find this in any regulatory act, yet such rules are cultivated daily by the prison administration organisation itself, where the pinnacle of morality is the Regulations on Service.

Concept for the Development of the Penal Enforcement System of the Russian Federation until 2020

Concept for the Development of the Penal Enforcement System of the Russian Federation until 2020. Draft