Stories of convicts

The All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations as one of the biggest institutions of the civil society of Ukraine, being concerned about justice – the basis of civil harmony of Ukraine, expresses its concern on the state of protection of human...

Halya Coynash Tamara Rafalska received a poignant victory on 27 May when the European Court of Human Rights found that Ukraine had violated her son’s rights through the use of police torture and the failure to properly investigate this.  She is unlikely to be...

Volodymyr Panasenko turned 62 on 13 March, his 15th birthday imprisoned for a crime nobody believes he committed. If he were one of Russia’s many Ukrainian political prisoners, legislators and others in Ukraine would, at least, be making public noises, and maybe even trying to secure his release.

The young pastor was arbitrarily Imprisoned for life in Ukraine, his guilt has never been proven, but yet, it’s been 23 years Yaroslav Missyak still in prison has no way to get out because of outdated Ukrainian law, which does not allow to look into the case again… Bishop Vasyl & Criminal Attorney Stephen Pidgeon with his assistant Vitaliy Musiyenko discuss the topic…

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14 years after a Lviv schoolgirl was killed when a bomb exploded under a local politician’s car, an innocent man is serving a life sentence for the crime, and at least two of the men involved in convicting him have received promotions in post-Maidan Ukraine. Volodymyr Panasenko is certainly not the only victim of gross miscarriages of justice whom Ukraine’s legislators are denying a final chance for justice. His case does, nonetheless, stand out for the cynicism with which a man whom nobody believed to be guilty was put on trial and sentenced to die in prison.

To sentence a person for life in prison or execution under Soviet law was enough when his confession came after he was tortured. People in Ukraine were condemned by this principle until the new legislation appeared in 2012; However, those who got their life sentences under the old law were never acquitted. Our journalist Alena Vishnitskaya, tells how Ukrainians, serving a life sentence, have been waiting for justice for 20 years and why they die in prisons with no hope for justice.