Page 22 - Report on the infringement of rights and guarantees of attorneys in Ukraine

Volodymyr Liushyk
attorney
SBU officers, threatening to use their weapons and physical violence through blows to the
body and head, tortured the attorney, humiliated him and held him illegally in custody.

Vadym Semenov
attorney
In July 2017, with the forceful support of the SBU’s Alfa special unit without legal cause,
using physical violence, an investigator of the Prosecutor-General's Office of Ukraine broke
into the attorney’s premises and carried out an illegal search. Due to bodily injuries
inflicted, the attorney called an ambulance. However, the investigator forbade the
doctors to hospitalise him. At the order of the investigator, the attorney was subjected to
physical violence during the entire period of the search, being simultaneously humiliated
and verbally assaulted.

Eduard Pukanych
attorney

A SBU employee, using physical violence, took the attorney’s personal mobile phone, and
threatened to bring a criminal action against him.

Pavlo Krasnikov
attorney

The attorney sustained bodily injuries in connection with activities related to the provision
of legal aid to a client.

Volodymyr Poiarkovyi
attorney
On 4 July 2017, when the attorney was providing legal aid in Odesa, unidentified persons
forced their way into the premises where the attorney was staying and inflicted bodily
injuries on him. According to attorneys, information about this assault was not entered in
the ERDR, as is required by the CPC of Ukraine. Furthermore, there are suspicions that the
police were aware that the attack would happen but did nothing to prevent it.

Mykhailo Bakhmut
attorney
On 25 July 2017, the attorney arrived in Zaporizhia to provide legal aid at the place of a
search, a client's flat. However, he was without reason denied the chance to participate
in procedural actions and was removed from the premises through the use of physical
violence and beating.

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