Why Illegally Detained Civilians Remain without Comprehensive Social Protection from the State

The document is the result of 1,5 year of monitoring the processes of adopting the Law, analyzing attempts to implement it and practice of its application. We seek to make the problems outlined in this report the subject of discussions and further changes in the current legislation regarding social and legal protection of illegally deprived Ukrainian citizens, as well as in the approaches of the Minreintegration to the procedure of establishing the fact of deprivation of personal liberty as a result of russian armed aggression against Ukraine, and the CMU to provide all the types of assistance guaranteed by the Law to such persons.

TEAM OF AUTHORS

Kateryna Levchenko, a lawyer, head of the legal department of the Association

Ihor Kotelianets, Head of the Association

Nataliia Hladynets, an analyst, PhD in Economics

Svitlana Odintsova, a legal analyst

Nataliia Savchenko, editor and translator

We express our special gratitude to Daria Svyrydova,a lawyer and expert at the Ukrainian Legal Advisory Group, for her consultative assistance.

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