Pavlo Lysianskyi, Associate Professor of Odesa Law Academy, was killed in an accident

Human rights activist and associate professor of the Department of Political Science at the National University "Odesa Law Academy" Pavlo Lysiankyi died in a traffic accident.

This was reported by the Institute for Strategic Studies and Security.

Pavlo Lysiansky was a Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science, a doctoral student at the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Associate Professor of the Department of Political Science at the National University "Odesa Law Academy", Director of the Institute for Strategic Studies and Security, human rights activist, winner of the International Human Rights Award, researcher of externally inspired separatism, co-author of the book "Takeover".

Representative of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights in Luhansk and Donetsk regions since 2018. In 2020, he became involved in a scandal after beating a restaurant security guard. After that, he was dismissed from the position of the Ombudsman's Representative.

With the beginning of the military conflict in eastern Ukraine in 2014, he founded the Eastern Human Rights Group NGO together with like-minded lawyers, the organization was engaged in comprehensive protection of human rights in the eastern regions of Ukraine.

One of the main activities of the organization was the preparation of analytical reports on human rights violations in the non-government controlled areas of Luhansk and Donetsk regions.

The analytical report "On Human Rights Violations in LPR Prisons", created by the Eastern Human Rights Group, made a real media boom in the Western press. The BBC website published an article about slave labor in LPR prisons, and the German press called what was happening "Gulags with Moscow's permission." After the publication of the report, and the information boom in the Western press, the illegally imprisoned Oleksandr Efreshin was released. In the four years of its activity, the Eastern Human Rights Group has also released three Ukrainian citizens and one Georgian citizen illegally detained in the LPR.

Кирило Бойко