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Ukraine: Further information: Detained asylum-seekers stop hunger ...
22 February 2012

Further information on UA: 29/12 Index: EUR 50/002/2012 Ukraine Date: 22 February 2012. URGENT ACTION. detained asylum-seekers stop hunger strike. ...

Urgent Action       EUR 50/002/2012

Amnesty International | Ukraine must protect detained asylum ...
31 January 2012

Amnesty International has urged the Ukrainian authorities to stop the ill-treatment of a group of detained asylum-seekers and their supporters, who were attacked ...

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Ukraine: Asylum-seekers detained and ill-treated
31 January 2012

Somali and Eritrean asylum-seekers and migrants are on hunger strike in protest against their illegal detention at a Migrant Accommodation Centre in Western Ukraine ...

Urgent Action       EUR 50/001/2012

Ukraine must protect detained asylum-seekers attacked by security ...
31 January 2012

Authorities urged stop the ill-treatment of about 60 Somalis and six Eritreans who had been on hunger strike in protest against their illegal detention.

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Ukraine must release Somali asylum-seekers | Amnesty International
19 January 2012

Around 60 Somalis - including many children - have gone on hunger strike to protest their administrative detention by Ukrainian authorities.

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Ukraine must launch fresh investigation into student death in ...
6 January 2012

Two police officers suspected of responsibility for a student's death have walked free following a court hearing in Kyiv Thursday.

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Ukrainian President must honour commitment to police reform ahead ...
20 December 2011

Amnesty International is calling on Ukraine to immediately establish an independent agency to investigate police abuses ahead of Euro 2012.

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Amnesty International | EU must press Ukraine at summit to stop ...
16 December 2011

Endemic abuse by Ukraine's police force needs to be strongly challenged during the EU-Ukraine summit on 19 December.

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EU must press Ukraine at summit to stop police abuses | Amnesty ...
16 December 2011

The EU should use an upcoming summit in Kyiv to pressure Ukraine to stop its epidemic of police criminality.

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Ukraine: Lawyer beaten for demanding to see client
14 December 2011

On 17 August lawyer Dmytro Karpenko was detained and tortured by police in Cherkasy, Ukraine, after demanding to see a client. When he complained about his treatment ...

Urgent Action       EUR 50/016/2011