The Right to Life Has No Retention Period: Where Did Odesa Detention Centre’s Mortality Statistics Go?
How many people have died in the Odesa Pre-Trial Detention Centre over the past decade and a half? How many of them took
Dmytro Yagunov, Andrii Chernousov: A New Draft Law Concerning Places of Detention: How Penitentiary Inspection Is Being Turned into Soviet-Style Oversight
On 8 June 2026, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine submitted to the Verkhovna Rada a draft Law “On the Establishment of a
Darkness as a Management Strategy: How the Odesa Pre-Trial Detention Prison Hides Its Own Statistics
For almost 30 years I have been researching Ukraine’s penitentiary system and reforming this field. During this time much has changed – my
In Memory of Yevhen Hrytsiak: The 100th Anniversary of the Birth of the Leader of the Norilsk Uprising
On 9 August 2026, Yevhen Stepanovych Hrytsiak turned one hundred years old – a native of the village of Stetseva in the Sniatyn
The Yagidne Case: The ECHR Informed the Russian Government of Complaints from Ukrainian Civilians Who Were Held in a School Basement for a Month
The European Court of Human Rights has served the Russian Government with the applications in Menyaylo and Others v. Russia and Lepekha and
‘There Are Simply Bad People’: Three Arguments Put Forward by ‘The Rock Regiment’ That Fall Apart in the Face of Article 3 of the Convention
Radio Svoboda (Radio Liberty), in its programme “Svoboda Live”, released a conversation with Andrii Surai, head of the civil-military cooperation group of the
“Proper” Torture: How Ukrainian Society Is Learning to Justify Torture, or the Case of the Odesa Detention Center as a Window into the Abyss
The incident that occurred in the Odesa pre-trial detention centre (SIZO) and that, in a very strange way, came to light and drew
‘Russia’s Liberal Opposition is Putin’s Soft Power in Europe.’ An Interview with Djamboulat Souleimanov, Leader of the Chechen National Liberation Movement United Force
He is hard to miss in the corridors of the Palace of Europe in Strasbourg. Djamboulat Souleimanov — a scholar-linguist, philologist, and historian
Odessa Pre-Trial Detention Center: The Prihibition of Torture is Absolute. No Exceptions
I have worked on the subject of torture and places of detention for many years, so there was no way I could not
“No Violations Found”: When Documents of the Odessa Pre-Trial Prison Contradict the CPT Reports
I recently received responses from the Odesa Pre-Trial Detention Centre to a lawyer’s request concerning conditions of detention — and these responses prompt