Five years for an attempted escape

Convicts who were preparing an escape from a colony have received their punishment. Press release.

Charity event for 8 March

Members of the “Chernihiv Women’s Human Rights Centre” charitable organisation have organised and held a charity event to raise funds for the needs of the staff and convicts of the Chernihiv Women's Colony. PRESS RELEASE

Ministry of Justice identifies 5 main problems of the penitentiary system

At least five problems in the activities of the criminal-executive service require priority and persistent efforts on the part of the state to resolve them. This was stated on 26 February by Minister of Justice Mykola Onishchuk, speaking at an expanded meeting of the board of the State Department of Ukraine for the Execution of Sentences.

Colony chief held accountable for illegal exploitation of prisoner labour

RUSSIA. The head of a Bashkir colony, Aleksandr Smiyan, has been found guilty of “abuse of office” for the illegal exploitation of prisoner labour for personal gain.

How observation commissions should look after women and children

On 16 February 2010, a training seminar was held at the Chernihiv Penal Colony, where women convicted multiple times are held.

Prison Monitoring

Preliminary report on the implementation of the project “Problems of creating a system of national preventive mechanisms for the prevention of torture”

Tymoshenko received 57% at polling stations in prisons

In particular, in absolute figures, this figure is 83,735 voters.

The Rada failed to reinstate the death penalty

People's deputies decided not to reinstate the death penalty in Ukraine.

Legislative changes have expanded the rights of prisoners regarding freedom of religion, and churches have been permitted to assist in their correction

Prisoners’ rights to freedom of conscience have been secured by law

A working group on the death penalty has been established in Belarus

Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, welcomed on 4 February the creation in the Belarusian parliament of a working group “on the death penalty as an instrument of punishment”, which included members of both houses of parliament.

Police detained a repeat offender who dismantled a wall in a pre-trial detention centre

Police officers detained a dangerous repeat offender, Stepan RADCHENKO, who escaped from the Odessa pre-trial detention centre on the morning of 4 February.

The Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union will provide all life-sentenced prisoners the opportunity to tell their story

Now every person sentenced to life imprisonment will have the right to tell the whole world their version of the events that cost them their freedom