TORTURE AND ILL-TREATMENT OF CHILDREN IN UKRAINE

Torture and ill-treatment of children in Ukraineare sufficient grounds for believing that they will avoid the investigation andcourt, or implementation of procedural decisions, and obstruct the establishingof truth in the case, or will continue unlawful activities — pending a courtdecision regarding the use of forced measures of an educational nature, butnot for more than 60 days.Should the grounds envisaged in this item have disappeared for the continuedholding of the child in a Centre for the Reception and Distribution ofMinors, or in the case of the circumstances indicated in part five of this articlehaving been established, the investigator or court shall immediately take adecision to stop holding the child in a Centre for the Reception and Distributionof Minors.Arrangements for a child with respect to whom a resolution or ruling hasbeen issued to stop their being held in a Centre for the Reception and Distributionof Minors and their removal without delay to the new place, is carriedout by officials of the Centre for the Reception and Distribution of Minors;2) are subject to transfer on a court order which has come into force to specialeducation and upbringing institutions; and there are sufficient grounds forbelieving that such children will engage in unlawful activities — for a periodneeded to move them to the special education and upbringing institutions,but for no more than 30 days;3) they left without authorization the special education and upbringinginstitutions in which they were staying — for a period needed to move themto the special education and upbringing institutions, but for no more than30 days;4) they are on the missing list as having disappeared, left their family oreducation and upbringing institutions (are vagrants) — for a period neededto hand them to a subdivision of the criminal police on juvenile matters whichinitiated the search, but for no more than 36 hours;5) have left the country of their permanent residence and in accordancewith international agreements which the Verkhovna Rada agreed to makemandatory are liable to be returned to the country of their permanent residence— for the period needed to pass them to their parents or those substitutingthem, or staff of special institutions in the country of permanent residence.The Criminal Procedure Code states that in the case of such indicators,a child may be placed in a Centre for the Reception and Distribution of Minorsfor a period of up to 30 days. This period, where there are grounds, may50