page_title: No to police state
section_title: Timeline of campaign
hierarchical_section_title: No to police state / Timeline of campaign
caption_attribution_description: Українська: Наліпка кампанії «Ні поліцейській державі» із датою акції протесту під МВС України проти міліцейського свавілля.English: Sticker of "No to police state" campaign, shown the date of the protest near Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine against police arbitrariness.
context_page_description: "No to police state" campaign - All-Ukrainian civil campaign against police brutality caused by the death of 20 years old student Igor Indylo in police precinct of Shevchenkivskyi District, Kiev. This campaign demanded to conduct proper investigation of the death of Indylo, to punish men guilty in his death and other high-profile cases.
context_section_description: 2010
  May 26 - activists held an action against beating of activist protecting Park of Maxim Gorky in Kharkiv from ruining by the police. The same day the story about the death of Indylo was shown on the news on TV channel 1+1. The story told that students claim that police puts a pressure on them to force them witness that Indylo participated in a fight before police came and sat in the police car already beaten and with his head injured. Also it told that on night from 17 to 18 of May ambulances came to the precinct four times and emphasized that police made no statements about the death of Indylo.
  June 1 - the first all-Ukrainian protest action against police brutality titled "We don't want to fall - we don't want to die" took place. Protesters demanded to replace all management of police precinct of Shevchenkivskyi District, to appoint a parliamentary commission to investigate all recent high-profile cases of police brutality and to publish results of the investigation of the death of Indylo. Protesters promised to repeat protest action in case their demands will not be obeyed. The action took place in 18 Ukrainian cities: in Kiev near the police precinct of Shevchenkivskyi District, in Kharkiv, Donetsk, Lviv, Lugansk, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, Rivne, Kirovograd, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil, Uzhgorod, Yevpatoria and other near regional offices of Ministry of Internal Affairs.
  June 4 - activists held an action titled "Police is illegal" in Kiev and Lviv which was caused by another beating of activist protecting Park of Maxim Gorky in Kharkiv. In Kiev it took place near the building of Ministry of Internal Affairs. Also there was a flashmob to support Kharkiv activists on Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kiev.
  June 10 - the second all-Ukrainian protest action against police brutality took place in 12 cities: Kiev, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Simferopol, Kherson, Poltava, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, Rivne, Ternopil and other.
  June 14 - the round table titled "Police and society: opposition or understanding" was held in Lviv with activists and Lviv Oblast police management participating.
  June 18 - the press conference "New murders in Kiev precincts: versions of police and parents of victims" took place in Kiev. Police representative Volodymyr Polishuk, journalists and others announced their versions of recent high-profile deaths in police precincts of Kiev - the death of Igor Indylo in police precinct of Shevchenkivskyi District and the death of Dmytro Yashuk in police precinct of Sviatoshynskyi District. Police representative denied police being involved in deaths of boys. But journalists, MP Yuriy Karmazin and relatives of Dmytro Yashuk announced results of their own investigations and controversial facts in police version.
  June 24 - activists organized a procession from Square of Contracts to Mykhailivska Square. After it activists performed a theatrical performance titled "The kitchen of death". Apart from demands to punish guilty in the deat of Indylo and in other high-profile cases of police brutality the new more global demands appeared - to strengthen punishment for misconduct, especially for tortures by policemen, to expand the powers of Ukraine Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights, to reestablish public councils in all territorial divisions of Ministry of Internal Affairs, to establish transparent mechanisms for public access to monitor the work of police and other.
  June 26 - the residents of Lubny particioated in protest action against police brutality titled "Let's protect Lubny residents from Lubny police" organized by the mayor Vasil Koryak. It was caused by recent beating of a boy by police and systematic misconducts and brutality of local police.
  June 28 - the flashmob against police brutality took place on Sofiivska Square in Kiev. People laid down on the pavement and their body contours were marked with a chalk like it is usually done with corpses.
  July 14 - another protest action took place near the building of Ministry of Internal Affairs in Kiev. It was caused by that policemen who killed Indylo were not punished, pol
caption: Sticker of campaign asking people to come to a protest action
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