Kateryna Handsjuk

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Kateryna Viktorivna Handsjuk ( Ukrainian Катерина Вікторівна Гандзюк ; born June 17, 1985 in Cherson , Ukrainian SSR ; † November 4, 2018 in Kiev , Ukraine ) was a Ukrainian civil rights activist who exposed corruption in her hometown of Kherson and fell victim to an acid .

Life

Handsyuk studied at the Kherson State University between 2002 and 2006. She graduated from the National Economic University in Kiev in 2008 and the National Academy of Public Administration ( Національна академія державного управління при Президентові України ) in Kiev in 2016 . She was a member of the Kherson Oblast Regional Council and the Kherson City Council as well as adviser to the Mayor of Kherson. She was seen as a critic of the security authorities and above all condemned corruption in the regional interior ministry. She had made the police involvement in several corruption cases public.

At the end of July 2018, a man showered her with sulfuric acid in front of her house and fled. She suffered severe burns on more than 30 percent of her body. The Ukrainian authorities reportedly arrested five men. EU enlargement commissioner Johannes Hahn wrote on Twitter: “Attacks on civil society activists are unacceptable. Those responsible for this insidious crime must be held accountable. "

Banner with the request to investigate the attack on the activist Handsjuk: "Вибачте, так а хто замовив Гандзюк?"

Handsjuk died on November 4, 2018. According to preliminary information, the cause of death was a thrombosis . The Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko confirmed in the evening of the same day the death of Handsjuk in a Kiev hospital. He asked the police to do everything possible to investigate the case.

After the news of the death, a spontaneous mourning rally took place in the Ukrainian capital, at which hundreds of demonstrators marched in front of the Interior Ministry and demanded that the murder be fully investigated.

In mid-February 2019, the chairman of the Kherson Regional Council , Wladyslaw Manher ( Владислав Миколайович Мангер ) was arrested. The law enforcement authorities accuse him of having commissioned the attack.

Quote

"Why do we encourage people to get involved if we don't protect them?"

- Kateryna Handsjuk : In a video message, a few weeks before her death.

Web links

Commons : Kateryna Handsjuk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung : Ukrainian activist dies after acid attack , November 5, 2018.
  2. ↑ Deceased Handsjuk: What is known about the activists? on www.unian.ua from November 4, 2018; accessed on November 6, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ Tagesschau (ARD) : Activist dies after acid attack , November 5, 2018.
  4. ↑ A murder costs $ 500 - the daily newspaper of February 16, 2019
  5. ↑ a b Die Welt (Berlin): Acid victim dies three months after the attack , November 5, 2018.
  6. ↑ The acid-doused activist Kateryna Handsjuk died on 24tv.ua on November 4, 2018; accessed on November 6, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  7. ^ Der Spiegel (Hamburg): Corruption critic in Ukraine after acid attack died November 5, 2018.
  8. ↑ Politicians arrested for fatal acid attack. Spiegel Online, February 15, 2019, accessed on the same day.
personal data
SURNAME Handsyuk, Kateryna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Handsyuk, Kateryna Viktorivna (full name); Гандзюк, Катерина Вікторівна (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian civil rights activist and victim
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Kherson , Ukrainian SSR
DATE OF DEATH 4th November 2018
Place of death Kiev , Ukraine