Ukraine’s Government seeks to legalize illegal Security Service detention prisons

Monday, June 12, 2017 - 4:25 (EET) Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)

The Cabinet of Ministers has tabled a draft bill which acknowledges the long-denied existence of SBU [Security Service] detention facilities and proposes amendments to legislation in order to formally allow them. Legal may be preferable to illegal, however removing the possibility of abuse by the Security Service would be better still …read more

Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group