‘Mother’s Day’ in a women’s colony

On 13 May 2009, a team from the Luhansk Regional Charitable Foundation ‘Teenager’, the Leninsky district centre for social services for family, children, and youth in the city of Luhansk, and students of the Luhansk State University paid a visit to the Sverdlovsk correctional colony No. 68.

Kirovohrad prisoners to create a poster that will influence the HIV epidemic

For many years, on the third Sunday of May, millions of people around the world have commemorated those who have died from AIDS. For the third consecutive year, HIV-infected convicts at Kirovohrad Correctional Colony No. 6 are holding their own events to mark this date.

A landmark decision by the European Court of Human Rights

The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) has won a case against Hungary regarding freedom of information. For the first time, the right of access to state information, provided for by Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, has been officially recognised.

About 80 prisoners in Oleksandria cleaned up the city park.

About 80 prisoners in Oleksandria joined the spring clean-up and cleaned up the city park.

First handbook for prisoners in Volyn presented

Its publication was made possible thanks to the project by the Volyn Association for the Protection of Youth Rights, “Improving access to legal knowledge for persons in places of detention”, supported by the International Renaissance Foundation.

Suicide

A week after the prisoner’s suicide, the department posted a notification on its website

The European Court of Human Rights has delivered its first ruling regarding detention conditions in Stryzhavka Correctional Colony No. 81

Vinnytsia Human Rights Group (press release)

Nurgaliyev has allowed human rights activists to speak with detainees under supervision

The Head of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Rashid Nurgaliyev, has issued an order explaining the mechanism for human rights activists or other public organisations to inspect the conditions of detention for those arrested and temporarily detained in remand centres, special reception facilities, centres for minors, and other detention premises.

Amnesty International calls for lifting the veil of secrecy surrounding the death penalty

Publishing summary statistics for 2007, Amnesty International calls on governments of all countries to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding the death penalty.

Discrimination against prisoners in Ukraine remains an insurmountable problem

Punitive measures are applied to protesting prisoners. Press conference on the Fourth Annual Report on Compliance with Prisoners’ Rights in Ukraine-2008

Press conference: How prisoners’ rights were observed in 2008

“Ukrainian News” agency On 23 April at 11:00 in the press centre of the “Ukrainian News” agency, a press conference of the human rights organisation “Donetsk Memorial” will be held on the topic: “How prisoners’ rights were observed in 2008”.

Are special units continuing to beat convicts?

For over a week, alarming events have been taking place in the Bryanka Penal Colony No. 11 (Luhansk Region). Reports of casualties have been received.