TORTURE AND ILL-TREATMENT OF CHILDREN IN UKRAINE

Torture and ill-treatment of children in UkraineThe internal investigation of these statements showed no violations in theactions of officials of the colony. No violations of the law on the procedure foradmission, registration and response to appeals concerning juveniles werefound.Full statistics of applications by children to the State Penitentiary Serviceis given in the letter of the Service.3.3. Office of the Prosecutor General of UkraineBecause, as the response to the request reads, that the organizational andadministrative documents of the Prosecutor-General’s Office of Ukraine arenot supposed to maintain statistical report on the applications concerningtorture and other brutal treatment of children and response to those facts,such information has not been provided to the researchers.The field audits established facts of violations of legislation aimed at protectingchildren from criminal assault and domestic violence prevention. Accordingto their results this year the prosecutors submitted over 800 documentsrequiring immediate responses; over 1000 officers were disciplined.3.4. Secretariat of the Ukrainian Verkhovna RadaCommissioner for Human RightsFrom 2010 till the end of the first six months of 2012 the Commissioner forHuman Rights received the total of 19 complaints regarding the use of tortureor other brutal treatment of children:No. Of requests about: 2010 2011 First 6 mos of 2012Torture 2 1 1brutal, inhuman or humiliating treatment 6 6 3Even the Commissioner’s Secretariat found it technically impossible toprovide more information about the outcome of the checkup of the administrationof complaints of brutal treatment (by category, according to instrumentD).130