Monitoring trial in the case of Leonid Kozhara (court hearings of March 26-27) March 26-27, court hearings were held in the Shevchenkovsky court of Kiev to select a measure of restraint to former Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara, who is suspected of the murder of Sergey Staritsky (former head of the Ukrainian television station “Inter”). The course of the pre-trial investigation. The preliminary version of the police was suicide. According to investigators, the shot was fired at the suspect’s house with a pistol [...]

Monitoring of the trial of S. Zinchenko, P. Ambroskin, A. Marinchenko, S. Tamtura, O. Yanishevsky (session on 03/17/2020) On December 29, 2019, under the Norman format, an exchange took place between Ukraine and the Uncontrolled regions of Eastern Ukraine. Five ex-officers of riot police unit “Berkut” (S. Zinchenko, P. Ambroskin, A. Marinchenko, S. Tamtura, O. Yanishevsky) also got on the exchange lists. The International Society for Human Rights has been monitoring the case for two years. On February 8, two of them [...]

Monitoring of criminal proceedings of Atroshchenko S.P., Zolotarev A.V., Kobak I.V. (session 03.13.20) On March 13, 2020, a hearing was held in the Moscow District Court of Kharkov in case No. 643/13126/18 on charges of Sergey Pavlovich Atroshchenko (part 4 of article 189, part 2 of article 15, part 2 of article 28, part 2 Article 194, Part 2 Article 28, Part 2 Article 194, Part 2 Article 15, Part 3 Article 28, Part 2 Article 189, Part 3 Article 28, Part [...]

Monitoring of criminal proceedings of Bliznyuk I.A., Golovkin A.O., Khlapovsky Yu.M. (sessions 03.10.2020 and 03.11.2020) On March 10, 2020, a hearing was held in the Ordzhonikidze district court of Kharkov in the case No. 644/192/18 on charges of I.A. Bliznyuk, A.O. Golovkin, and Yu.M. Khlapovsky (part 1 of Article 255, part 4 of article 28, part 3 of article 146, part 4 of article 28, part 4 of article 189, part 1 of article 263 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). The [...]

Monitoring the case of V. Muravitsky (court hearing 03.20.2020) March 20, 2020 in the Korolevsky District Court of the city of Zhytomyr, a regular court session was held in the case of the journalist Vasily Muravitsky, who is accused of treason and encroachment on the territorial integrity of Ukraine (part 2 of article 110, part 1 of article 111, part 2 of article .161, part 1, article 258-3 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) through his journalistic activities. Experts from the International [...]

Monitoring the case of Anatoly Hranovskiy (session 03.03.2020) March 3, 2020 in the Zhytomyr District Court, a preparatory hearing was held in the case of Hranovskiy A. accused of violating traffic safety rules or using vehicles by persons driving vehicles that resulted in the deaths of several persons (part 3 of article 286 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). At the time of the trial, the accused was in custody. The course of the hearing. The trial was attended by another prosecutor [...]