Supreme Court disrupts Ukraine’s accession to EU by repressions for faith and pacifism
(27.10.2025) In the midst of an international scandal around the imprisonment and torture of conscientious objectors, the judges showed a little mercy to Vitalii Kryushenko without due acquittal, but did not even mention it on the court’s website, as the policy of repression for faith seems to remain unchanged. The Joint Chamber of the Cassation Criminal Court of the Supreme Court denied a cassation complaint against the sentence to a prisoner of conscience Vitaliy Kryushenko, but suspended the sentence and released him from prison with one-year probationary term.
Constitutional complaints of three conscientious objectors will be judged jointly
(17.10.2025) Constitutional Court of Ukraine decides whether the state have a right to deny in alternative service to those who can’t join the army because of beliefs, and whether it is legitimate to imprison people for holding fast to high standards of conscience. On 15 October 2025, the Second Senate of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine decided to consider constitutional complaints of Vitalii Alekseienko, Serhii Ivanushchenko, and Dmytro Zelinsky jointly in one constitutional proceeding. Previously, reasons to join the constitutional proceedings were pointed out in the amicus curiae brief submitted by the Director of the Institute of Peace and Law, Yurii Sheliazhenko, which the Court decided to add to the case file on 1st October.
WHERE? City Library, Bücherturm Herrnstr. 84 63065 Offenbach am Main
In May 2024, the European Parliament decided to reform the Common European Asylum System(CEAS). There are fears that this will lead to further dramatic cuts in the fundamental and human rights of refugees. In the evening, HannahSommer, an employee of the «Munich Refugee Council», will explain the planned changes and outline what this means in concrete terms for refugees.
