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Volodymyr Boyuk
attorney
An SBU employee took the attorney’s licence by force and then disappeared. For some
period of time, the attorney was beaten up by unknown persons. Furthermore, the attorney
repeatedly received threats demanding he stop participating in one particular court case.

Оleksandr Kоnоnеnkо
attorney
In May 2017, in Dnipro three police officers, having knocked down the front door, broke into
the attorney’s flat and threatened to inflict bodily harm and use firearms, attempted to take
away cases from the attorney that the latter was handling in different courts around Ukraine.
Moreover, the attorney was hit several times in the face, hands and body. In addition to
bodily injuries, the attorney suffered pecuniary damage in the amount of UAH 7,000 due to
the need to restore the entrance door to the flat, which was knocked down by police officers.
Based on the facts of the attack and beating, Kononenko filed a statement with the
Apostolivskyi Department of the National Police of Nikopol Police Department of the Main
Office of the National Police of Ukraine in Dnipropetrovsk Region regarding the committing of
a criminal offence against him. Criminal proceedings were commenced.

Volodymyr Boyuk
attorney
On 1 June 2017, at the end of a court hearing in Chornomorskyi District Court of Odesa, the
attorney was attacked by radically-minded activists, which led to the attorney suffering
severe bodily injuries. Proceedings were commenced based on the fact of the offence, but
no person was questioned as a witness. The attorney was not recognized as an injured
person. V. Rybin defended Yevgenii Mefiodov, a Kulikove Pole activist, who was a person
accused in the case of the unrest on Hretska Square, which took place on 2 May 2014 in
Odesa.

Volodymyr Boyuk
attorney

On 13 June 2017, in Kyiv three men beat up the human
rights defender and fighter against illegal construction. He
was ambushed on his way to the Court of Appeals in the
case of the Prazkyi Kvartal—2 residential complex under
construction in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka Village, Kyiv
Region. The injured person is certain that the attack is
connected with this case.

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