Advocates call to fire Oleh Tatarov from the Presidential Office

Advocacy and other civil society organizations are concerned with assigning Oleh Tatarov as the vice-head of the Presidential Office. This man is a close team-mate of Vitaliy Zakharchenko, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Yanukovych. These organizations call to the President of Ukraine to fire Tatarov.

This was the joint open petition of several organizations, Zmina informs.

The petitioners remind that Oleh Tatarov worked as vice-head of the main investigations department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs during Euromaidan, and in that capacity he quite openly tried to mislead the public  and journalists about the events on the streets at that time.

The petitioners call the President to fire Oleh Tatarov, and in the future, “not to allow assigning to high political positions any people who tried to justify and cover up mass crimes and violations of human rights, and are themselves personification of the authoritarian rule of Yanukovych, as they held leading positions in the law-enforcement agencies of that time”.

The petition was signed: 

Association of Ukrainian Monitors for Compliance with Human Rights in Activities of Law-Enforcement Agencies

Advocacy Initiative

website zovzakona.org

NGO “Analytical Platform”

NGO “Narodna Rada”

Hromadianska Pozytsia

NGO Institute of Mass Information

“Vostok SOS”

Advocacy Center “Postup”

Foundation DEJURE

Media Project “Watchers”

Laboratory of Law Enforcement Initiatives

Ukrainian School of Political Studies

Media Initiative for Human Rights

NGO “Center for Development and Democracy”

Movement “CHESNO”

NGO “Truth Hounds”

Kharkiv Anti-Corruption Center

“AutoMaidan”

Kharkiv Advocacy Group

Ukrainian Helsinki Association for Human Rights

Center for Counteraction to Corruption

Human Rights Center ZMINA

Center for civil liberties

Human Rights Platform

Lawyers Advisory Group

Kharkiv oblast foundation “Hromadska Alternatyva”

Movement of Resistance to Capitulation

Institute for Development of Social Innovations

Pylyp Orlyk Democracy Institute

Educational house for human rights – Chernihiv

Cherkasy Advocacy Center

Group for Strategic and Security Studies

Center for Political and Law Reforms