The Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) of Ukraine has completed the pre-trial investigation of three former employees of the Berkut riot police of the Interior Ministry of Ukraine in Kharkiv region into the instances of the arrest and beating of protesters during the EuroMaidan Revolution on Jan. 19, 2014, near the Lobanovsky stadium in central Kyiv.
The PGO’s press service reported on March 27 three former Berkut officers are suspected of torturing two people, in particular “deliberately inflicting severe physical pain, causing physical and mental suffering by beating, torturing and other violent acts committed on the grounds of revenge after the detention of these protesters in the colonnade of the Lobanovsky stadium” on Hrushevskoho Street in Kyiv on January 19, 2014.
The actions of suspects are qualified based on Article 127 of Part 2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (torture). This crime is punishable by up to ten years of imprisonment.
The Prosecutor General’s Office said that since March 21, 2017, the criminal case materials have been open to public.
