10.01.2012

Betrayal

Prosecutions over the deaths of two young men caught public attention during the first week of 2012. Neither Stephen Lawrence nor Ihor Indylo lived to celebrate their twentieth birthday. Stephen was knifed to death on a London street back in 1993, Ihor died in a Kyiv police station.

26.12.2011

Court amnesties one of the officers charged over the death of Ihor Indylo

The Desnyansky District Court which is for the second time examining the case brought over the death in police custody of young student Ihor Indylo, has amnestied one of the two officers who were facing charges.

07.12.2011

Report on the Donetsk Events: Police have not proven their innocence

On Tuesday the temporary working group of the MIA Public Council presented a report on the events which culminated in the death of protester Gennady Konoplyov. Mr Konoplyov, a retired miner from the Donetsk region, had been on hunger strike in solidarity with former Chernobyl clean-up workers protesting cuts in pensions and benefits. He died on Sunday evening, 27 November during the forced dismantling of their protest tents by police officers and men from the Emergencies Ministry.

28.10.2011

Police continue to deny any wrongdoing in death of Ihor Indylo

The second court examination into the death of young student Ihor Indylo in police custody is continuing in Kyiv. Yehor Sobolyev reports that Judge Oleksy Panasyuk listens with patience and attention to each witness.

04.10.2011

Video footage shows Ihor Indylo’s last hours

Svidomo has published CCTV footage which shows student Ihor Indylo being brought into the Shevchenkivsky Police Station in May last year just hours before he died. He seems neither drunk, as the police have alleged, nor anything but a healthy young man, about to turn 20.

18.08.2011

Court cancels investigation into death in police custody of Ihor Indylo

The Kyiv Court of Appeal has revoked the ruling of the Desnyansky District Court which in April did not accept the way the Prosecutor’s Office had investigated the death in May 2010 of young student, Ihor Indylo. The court then concluded that the reason for Ihor’s death had not bee sufficiently well investigated, and sent the case back for further examination.

03.04.2011

Number of deaths in police custody triples

The Kharkiv Human Rights Group has given a press conference on the use of torture by police and the worrying increase in deaths of detainees.

15.10.2010

Transparency International scathing over government commissioned “audit of Tymoshenko’s government

According to Nicholaus Marshall from Transparency International, the “Washington audit” only discredits the fight against corruption in Ukraine, has serious flaws and in his view was not independent.

14.10.2010

Ihor Indylo investigation complete – and predictably unsatisfactory

Two officers of the Shevchenkivsky Police Station have been charged with exceeding their official duties and negligence over the death in police custody of 19-year-old student, Ihor Indylo. hor’s parents and their lawyer are dissatisfied with the results and intend to demand another examination.

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