Prisoners in the Yakutsk pre-trial detention centre have announced a hunger strike

Several dozen prisoners in the Yakutsk pre-trial detention centre have announced a hunger strike in protest of “dissatisfaction with the conditions of detention”.

Who will stop the “State Department of Torture”?! STATEMENT

Another suicide in the Bila Tserkva Correctional Colony No. 35.

Detainee dies in hospital after being brutally beaten in Kirovohrad pre-trial detention centre

Tonight, 22-year-old Anatolii LEVCHUN, who was brutally beaten in the Kirovohrad pre-trial detention centre, died in the hospital.

The Department has introduced a visitation tax

Staff at the pre-trial detention centre are demanding that citizens who have brought parcels to the centre or who wish to visit a relative purchase and complete special application forms.

Beatings at the Kirovohrad pre-trial detention centre

The mother of the young man beaten in the Kirovohrad pre-trial detention centre: Doctors give no guarantee that my son will survive

Mobile groups – development issues

The publication ‘Mobile groups in the Ministry of Internal Affairs: practice, analysis, recommendations’ has been released – the first thorough summary of the monitoring activities of two mobile groups – in Donetsk Oblast and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

Horodyshche, Kharkiv, and then everywhere?

Prisoners beaten during a ‘search’ at the Kharkiv pre-trial detention centre

Emergency at the 96th Colony

Convicts beaten again. So they don’t dare to complain?

Irkutsk GUFSIN employees to face trial for beating prisoners

On 21 May, Irkutsk investigators transferred a criminal case to court against five GUFSIN employees suspected of beating prisoners

Sverdlovsk temporary detention facility prisoners protest against humiliating treatment by staff

As long as improper treatment of prisoners in temporary detention facilities continues, they will ‘cut themselves’

Two convicts died in the Voznesensk correctional colony

Tragic incident at the Voznesensk correctional colony in the Mykolaiv region.

Authority figure who escaped from the colony detained

Officers of the Lviv Department for Combating Organised Crime detained the criminal Kostiantyn Lytvynenko, known in criminal circles as ‘Rambo’, in the town of Rohatyn, Ivano-Frankivsk region, on 22 May at approximately 16:00.