Panel Discussion ‘The Right to Fair Trial’

Duration
120’

Organisers: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group

 

One out of every hundred people sentenced to life in prison in Ukraine are innocent, and serve their time without the right to review their cases in a fair trial. At the same time, one in ten are sentenced for a higher category of crime than they were supposed to, which is also unfair. These are the findings of a study by the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group.

For nine years, Ukraine has not had an effective procedure for reviewing criminal cases. Meanwhile, a number of people remain sentenced to life and are gradually dying. The acquittal rate in Ukrainian courts is almost zero, which means that the government is behaving unjustly to a certain category of people who were convicted on the grounds of fabricated evidence, testimonies acquired by beating and torture, etc.

During this discussion, we will try to figure out how to solve this problem that has existed for many years.

 

Speakers:

Bill Bowring (UK), professor of law at Birkbeck College, University of London, lawyer in Field Court Chambers, Grays Inn., who has won more than 200 cases;

Anna Maliar, criminal lawyer, attorney, author of parliamentary bills;

Markiyan Halabala, deputy head of the Temporary Special Commission for Examining Trial Courts, lawyer, head of the Markiyan Halabala Law Firm;

Andriy Didenko, programme coordinator in the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group;

Oleksiy Hnatenko, Halyna Hnatiuk and Viktor Kolbantsev, lawyers;

Maryna Stavniichuk, chairman of the board of the NGO For Democracy through Law, vice-president of the World Congress of Ukrainian Lawyers;

Roman Kuibida, deputy chairman of the Board of the Center for Political and Legal Reforms, member of the Judicial Reform Council;

Oleh Levytskiy, lawyer, head of public reception of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union;

Tetyana Kozachenko, social activist, lawyer;

 

Moderator: Natalka Sokolenko, journalist, member of the Stop Censorship! Movement and the Self-Government Alternative Network, member of the Civic Council for Integrity.


1st floor IZONE
Naberezhno-Luhova str. 8
Sunday
24 March 2019
10:00
21 INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
 31 — 9 
May
June 2024
Lecture ‘Do I need to think about digital security?’
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23 March 2019
Lecture ‘Do I need to think about digital security?’
Duration
90’
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23 March 2019
Digital Rights: Guidelines for Internet Users
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23 March 2019
Digital Rights: Guidelines for Internet Users
Duration
60’
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23 March 2019
Expressing Views Online: Human Rights Advocates’ Journey Down the Rab…
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23 March 2019
Expressing Views Online: Human Rights Advocates’ Journey Down the Rabbit Hole
Duration
60’
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23 March 2019
Discussion ‘Key challenges in realising digital rights in Ukraine’
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23 March 2019
Discussion ‘Key challenges in realising digital rights in Ukraine’
Duration
60’
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23 March 2019
Presentation of the virtual legal city ‘Pravopil’
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23 March 2019
Presentation of the virtual legal city ‘Pravopil’
Duration
120’
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23 March 2019
Exhibition-installation: ‘Suitcases of Human Rights Advocates’
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23 March 2019
Exhibition-installation: ‘Suitcases of Human Rights Advocates’
Duration
540’
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23 March 2019
Politics Against Common Sense: Top Chart of the Worst Ideas on How To…
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24 March 2019
Politics Against Common Sense: Top Chart of the Worst Ideas on How To Regulate the Internet
Duration
60’
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24 March 2019
Screening of the film ‘Shut the Fuck Up’. Discussion ‘Defenceless Def…
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24 March 2019
Screening of the film ‘Shut the Fuck Up’. Discussion ‘Defenceless Defenders: Why Are Activists Attacked and How Can We Stop It?’
Duration
120’
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24 March 2019
Exhibition: ‘Twelve Stories of People Who Were Arbitrarily Sentenced …
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24 March 2019
Exhibition: ‘Twelve Stories of People Who Were Arbitrarily Sentenced to Life in Prison’
Duration
540’
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24 March 2019
Screening of the film 'The Facade's Color Is Blue' and discussion
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24 March 2019
Screening of the film 'The Facade's Color Is Blue' and discussion
Duration
150’
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24 March 2019
Workshop ‘Culture of Using Open Data’
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26 March 2019
Workshop ‘Culture of Using Open Data’
Duration
90’
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26 March 2019
No Buckwheat. Where Is the Choice Made: In Voting Booths or on Social…
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25 March 2019
No Buckwheat. Where Is the Choice Made: In Voting Booths or on Social Media?
Duration
90’
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25 March 2019
VR presentation of fragments from the future 3D film 'Prisoners of Wa…
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25 March 2019
VR presentation of fragments from the future 3D film 'Prisoners of War'
Duration
540’
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25 March 2019
Accountability to Beneficiaries in the Activities of Humanitarian Org…
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26 March 2019
Accountability to Beneficiaries in the Activities of Humanitarian Organisations
Duration
60’
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26 March 2019
Search for Truth in the Age of Post-Truth: A Series of Interactive Se…
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26 March 2019
Search for Truth in the Age of Post-Truth: A Series of Interactive Seminars
Duration
60’
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26 March 2019
Film Clubs: Informal Education and Copyright Protection
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23 March 2019
Film Clubs: Informal Education and Copyright Protection
Duration
90’
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23 March 2019
Instruments of Control over the Use of Taxpayer Money
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26 March 2019
Instruments of Control over the Use of Taxpayer Money
Duration
60’
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26 March 2019
Human Rights in Crimea: Stories of Human Rights Advocates; How People…
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27 March 2019
Human Rights in Crimea: Stories of Human Rights Advocates; How People Work in Exile and Under Occupation
Duration
120’
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27 March 2019
Screening of the film ‘Convoyed Across Half the Earth: The Story of S…
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27 March 2019
Screening of the film ‘Convoyed Across Half the Earth: The Story of Sentsov and Kolchenko’s Imprisonment’, and the discussion ‘What can I do for political prisoners?’
Duration
120’
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27 March 2019
Screening of the Balukh documentary project, and a discussion entitle…
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27 March 2019
Screening of the Balukh documentary project, and a discussion entitled ‘We don’t leave our people behind: What is going on in Crimea?’
Duration
120’
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27 March 2019
Access to Public Information: The Mechanism of Control and Court Prac…
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29 March 2019
Access to Public Information: The Mechanism of Control and Court Practice
Duration
90’
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29 March 2019
The Digitisation of Violence: Stalking, Bullying, Revenge Porn
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29 March 2019
The Digitisation of Violence: Stalking, Bullying, Revenge Porn
Duration
90’
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29 March 2019
Roundtable: ‘The Sheriffs for New Communities’
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29 March 2019
Roundtable: ‘The Sheriffs for New Communities’
Duration
120’
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29 March 2019
Screening of the film 'No Status. Ukraine'
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29 March 2019
Screening of the film 'No Status. Ukraine'
Duration
90’
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29 March 2019
Coffee with Human Rights Advocates. Violence Against Women: How Will …
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23 March 2019
Coffee with Human Rights Advocates. Violence Against Women: How Will the Istanbul Convention Help to Fight It?
Duration
90’
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23 March 2019
Coffee with Human Rights Advocates. Personal Data as the Currency of …
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24 March 2019
Coffee with Human Rights Advocates. Personal Data as the Currency of the 21st Century: Who Owns It, Who Sells It, and Who Buys It?
Duration
90’
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24 March 2019
Coffee with Human Rights Advocates. Human Rights in the Digital Age: …
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25 March 2019
Coffee with Human Rights Advocates. Human Rights in the Digital Age: How to Avoid Becoming a Reality Show Participant?
Duration
90’
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25 March 2019
Coffee with Human Rights Advocates. Online Anonymity for Human Rights…
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27 March 2019
Coffee with Human Rights Advocates. Online Anonymity for Human Rights Advocates: Is It Achievable?
Duration
90’
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27 March 2019
Coffee with Human Rights Advocates. How to tame Facebook? The secrets…
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29 March 2019
Coffee with Human Rights Advocates. How to tame Facebook? The secrets of successful social media campaigns.
Duration
90’
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29 March 2019
Coffee with Human Rights Advocates. What happens when the Grads fall …
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26 March 2019
Coffee with Human Rights Advocates. What happens when the Grads fall silent: Overcoming the consequences of the armed conflict in Eastern Ukraine
Duration
90’
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26 March 2019
Social Media as an Environment for Teenage Development
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25 March 2019
Social Media as an Environment for Teenage Development
Duration
90’
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25 March 2019
Lecture 'Why Do Manipulation and Propaganda Work? How Do Manipulators…
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25 March 2019
Lecture 'Why Do Manipulation and Propaganda Work? How Do Manipulators Profit from the Logic of the Internet?'
Duration
120’
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25 March 2019
Unrest: Case Study on Creative Impact Distribution
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27 March 2019
Unrest: Case Study on Creative Impact Distribution
Duration
90’
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27 March 2019
Minding the Gap: Case Study on impact campaign
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25 March 2019
Minding the Gap: Case Study on impact campaign
Duration
90’
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25 March 2019
Impact from the Grassroots: A Case study on "Death by design&quo…
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26 March 2019
Impact from the Grassroots: A Case study on "Death by design"
Duration
90’
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26 March 2019