TORTURE AND ILL-TREATMENT OF CHILDREN IN UKRAINE

More documents

Recommendations

Info

Torture and ill-treatment of children in Ukraineber more,” and when he replied that he had nothing else committed, hewas forced to confess in committing other crimes. One of the police officersrepeatedly gave him a clip, and once even banged him with his fist. Anotherpolice officer yelled at him, cursing obscenely and threatened to beat him.As the Code of Criminal Procedure does not provide the procedure of receivingand documenting unofficial questioning (“taking explanations”),including the mandatory presence during the questioning the teacher andthe parents or legal representatives (as provided in the interrogation of personsunder 14 years) the investigator questioned the boy without presenceof these persons.The law does not provide a long-term detention of persons in police departments.There are no normal conditions for sleep and the detainees arenot provided with food, so the boy ate food that his grandmother brought tohim.During the confidential meeting with his defense lawyer the boy toldabout the ill-treatment with him by the police officers. The officer who himself“questioned” the boy in such manner told that it was the proper treatmentfor little criminal. The official questioning of the boy in relation to thecircumstances of the committed socially dangerous acts was performed in thepresence of a lawyer and teacher, and then the boy was released under thesupervision of the mother.As the minimum age of criminal responsibility is 14 years, the investigatordismissed criminal prosecution of the boy and sent it to the court for applicationto the boy coercive educational measures. Upon the request of the investigatingthe judge ordered placement of the boy into distribution centersfor minors (ie, the place of detention) for 30 days. By result of the hearing thecourt ordered for the boy the forced measure of educational nature in theform of the supervision of his mother.1806.5. Police sweep of a communityIn the summer of 2009, a murder of 17-year-old girl was committed in oneof the outskirts of Kharkiv city. Search officers of the District Police Station begandelivering to the station dozens of residents of the district in which thecrime victim lived. As soon as she newly graduated from high school, among
Section 6Stories on children — victims of ill-treatmentdelivered to the police there were many pupils of the school in which studiedmurdered girl, her friends and so on.Several girls having been interviewed in connection with the crime, parentscomplained to the rough treatment of the police.One 16-year-old, disabled since childhood that police had took fromhome at 6-30 a.m. and had held her there up to 23 hours, said that the dayshe had stood in the hallway, waiting for their turn at the questioning, andshe never had been given food and drink (that day was unbearable heat), andonce a day she had been given the opportunity to go to the bathroom.Another girl’s mother said that after their daughter, also having been takenin the morning from the apartment, the police had not come back fromthe police station until the late evening. The mother went there to find out thesituation. When she demanded from the leadership of the police station toinform why her daughter being held by the police all the day, she was rudelysaid that it would keep as much as they need, up to during three — five daysas they were considered appropriate. The mother phoned to several numbers:of “trust”, internal security of the oblast Department of the Ministry of Interiorand others but in vain.When the girl was released late in the evening, she was in shock becauseof her treatment of the police. After return to home, she locked the bathroomand about an hour was there and feared to come out. Before the visit to thepolice station the girl was cheerful, and then retreated into herself and wentfrom Kharkov to Russia to her relatives.It should be noted that on completing of the investigation it was determinedthat none of the girls who was brought to the police station, had notbeen involved in the crime. Accordingly they were delivered (“invited”) to thestation in the status of visitors just for being taken explanations. Parents ofminors filed several complaints against illegal actions of employees, one ofthem called the representative of the Minister of Interior on the matter of humanrights observance in Kharkiv oblast, that submitted the report about theincident ha been in the station in this day of the “sweep”.In the lobby of the police station and at the entrance, there were a lot ofparents whose children stayed all day there. Accordingly, a bunch of childrenwere in the middle of the room police station. Upon consideration of thesecomplaints inspection personnel have not found violations from the part ofthe police in relation to children who were brought to the police station.181
Page 2:
DesignerBoris ZakharovOn the cover
Page 5 and 6:
Section 5. ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTIV
Page 7 and 8:
ForewordThe investigation comprised
Page 9 and 10:
Methodological framework of the stu
Page 11 and 12:
Page 13 and 14:
Page 15 and 16:
⇒ 1. Information about the projec
Page 17 and 18:
Page 19 and 20:
Page 21 and 22:
Page 23 and 24:
Page 25 and 26:
Page 27 and 28:
Page 29 and 30:
Page 31 and 32:
Page 33 and 34:
Section 1Analysis of legislation on
Page 35 and 36:
Page 37 and 38:
Page 39 and 40:
Page 41 and 42:
Page 43 and 44:
Page 45:
Page 48 and 49:
Torture and ill-treatment of childr
Page 50 and 51:
Page 52 and 53:
Page 54 and 55:
Page 56 and 57:
Page 58 and 59:
Page 60 and 61:
Page 62 and 63:
Page 64 and 65:
Page 66 and 67:
Page 68 and 69:
Page 70 and 71:
Page 72 and 73:
Page 74 and 75:
Page 76 and 77:
Page 78 and 79:
Page 80 and 81:
Page 82 and 83:
Page 84 and 85:
Page 86 and 87:
Page 88 and 89:
Page 90 and 91:
Page 92 and 93:
Page 94 and 95:
Page 96 and 97:
Page 98 and 99:
Page 100 and 101:
Page 102 and 103:
Page 104 and 105:
Page 106 and 107:
Page 108 and 109:
Page 110 and 111:
Page 112 and 113:
Page 114 and 115:
Page 116 and 117:
Page 118 and 119:
Page 120 and 121:
Page 122 and 123:
Page 124 and 125:
Page 126 and 127:
Page 128 and 129:
Page 130 and 131: Torture and ill-treatment of childr
Page 196: Науково-практичне
show all

TORTURE AND ILL-TREATMENT OF CHILDREN IN UKRAINE

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?