Lesya Gongadze and Nina Karpacheva

Lesya Gongadze, mother of journalist Georgyi Gongadze, who died in September on 2000 , left, and Parliament representative on human rights Nina Karpacheva answer the journalists questions on Tuesday, June 26, 2000. On June 26 Karpacheva informed that from September 1 in Ukraine the 127 article of the Criminal code will come in force. The article fixes criminal responsibility for use of trials and cruel treatment of people. According to her, the use of trials in Ukraine finds «extremely wide expansion», especially in «rooms of seizure» and investigation cells. Photo by Alexander Sinitsa/ UNIAN