Were Convicts Beaten in Volnyansk Colony?

On 3 June, a consolidated unit entered VIK-20 and brutally beat the convicts in the disciplinary isolation ward and the cell-type facility.

Suicide at Strizhavka Penal Colony No. 81

On 1 June 2008, at approximately 15:00, convict Serhii Volodymyrovych Maksymov, born in 1985, a native of the Zhmerynka district of the Vinnytsia region, committed suicide.

Appeal to General Kalinin

A group of Russian human rights defenders and civil activists has issued an open appeal to General Yuri Kalinin, Director of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN).

Probationers in Drohobych Are Being Resocialised

Specialists from the Drohobych City Centre for Social Services for Family, Children, and Youth, together with representatives of the Drohobych Criminal Executive Inspection, held a meeting to discuss the main aspects of working with convicts released on probation.

German Scientists Visited the Lontskoho Prison in Lviv

German scientists came to Lviv yesterday to visit the NKVD Prison No. 1, the so-called ‘Lontskoho Prison’, the SBU press centre reports.

Outcome of the Gusev v. Russia Case

On 15 May, the European Court of Human Rights delivered its judgment in the case of ‘Gusev v. Russia’. The Court unanimously ruled that the applicant’s rights had been violated under Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (prohibition of torture, and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment) and Article 5(3) (right to release pending trial).

Russia—Champion of Complaints to the European Court

For several years now, Russia has held the leading position in terms of the number of appeals to the European Court of Human Rights. Currently, 20,300 complaints from Russia are being processed by this court..

Suicide at Konotop Correctional Centre No. 130

One of the prisoners at the correctional centre has hanged himself in protest against the tightening of the regime

Strasbourg court awards compensation to Perm prisoners

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has upheld a claim (“Dedovskiy and Others v. Russia”) by seven prisoners from a penal colony in the Perm region and awarded each of them 10,000 euros in compensation.

A diploma behind bars

This year, about 90 people are pursuing higher education in places of detention

Why are there hunger strikes in the Dnipropetrovsk colony?

In the Dnipropetrovsk Correctional Colony No. 89, several convicts serving life sentences declared a hunger strike on 12 May.

Flash report on an emergency situation at the temporary detention facility of the UMVD of Ukraine in Sevastopol

According to the Vinnytsia Human Rights Group, despite the European Court of Human Rights ruling in the “Yakovenko v. Ukraine” case, brutal human rights violations continue in the Sevastopol temporary detention facility.