TORTURE AND ILL-TREATMENT OF CHILDREN IN UKRAINE

Section 6Stories on children — victims of ill-treatmentinhuman and degrading. E. was not able to go out into the fresh air, thelights in the cell was burning day and night, there was a noise, the cell wasstuffy, the applicant did not have his personal sleeping place. Such conditionscontributed to infection of tuberculosis and development of thedisease. The applicant claims that while staying in SIZO, he was in variouscells, including the cells where tuberculosis patients were. It is very likelythat in these circumstances the applicant could get tuberculosis beingin SIZO No. 5.After his release from the SIZO in July 2002 E. applied to the Donetsk regionaltuberculosis hospital, where was made the advisory opinion that E. haddisease at the focal tuberculosis in the lobe of the left lung.Requirements of E.’s mother to perform the examination and to institutecriminal proceedings against the perpetrators of physical violence didnot produce results. The first examination was conducted carelessly andineffectively, as the conclusions of the examination were made solely onthe testimony of persons whom the applicant’s mother accused of wrongdoing.After consideration of the complaint to the examination, a district courtremitted the case for additional examination to the prosecutor’s office of thePetrovsky District. After conducting of this examination the prosecutor’s officerefused to open the criminal proceeding against police officers who allegedlysubjected E. to ill-treatment. E.’s mother was not provided with the copy of thedecision on refusal to open criminal proceeding.In 2009 E. lodged the application to the European court of human rights.Among other violations he complained on the violation of Article 3 of the Europeanconvention of human rights.6.2. Group of homeless juvenile “murderers”In summer 2007 the police officers had detained some persons in thedifferent districts of the city of Kharkov. Among detainees were the juvenileboys G., E. and M., his infant brother and 14 years old sister, and two girls B.and S. The majority of these persons were children deprived of parents careand kept in the shelter for children, sometimes lived in the basements of thehouses next to the heating system and other similar places. The children weredetained in connection with the murder of the 58-years old man who lived173