SECTION 2. families and nears of the victims and strongly condemned any violence on the part both of the participants of mass actions and of the law enforcement. She also appealed to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine requesting immediate impartial investigation of the deaths and to the leadership of MIA demanding strict compliance with the law. The Ombudsman once again reminded the MIA leadership that even when an assembly ceases to be peaceful the law enforcement must act exclusively within the boundaries of the effective legislation, use force in view of the principle of proportionality, minimize the damage to life and health and preclude violence to the already detained. On January 22, 2014 after controversial information in the mass media about the causes of protesters’ deaths in Hrushevskoho Street the Ombudsman instructed the staff of the medical section of NPM Department to take part, as appropriate, in investigative actions – examination of the bodies of the killed activists S. Nigoyan and M. Zhyznevsky in the mortuary of Kyiv Forensic Bureau and attendance of the forensic autopsy. NPM Department personnel with medical degrees and considerable background in forensic and criminological practice ascertained compliance with all requirements of the effective legislation during external and internal forensic examination of the bodies, identification, examination and documentation of the injuries, registration of the found items and their referral for further forensic tests. On January 24, 2014 the Ombudsman received information from “EuroMaidan SOS” NGO that a number of minors with injuries inflicted during apprehension by “Berkut” riot police and several personnel 39 of Military Unit 3057 were brought to OHMATDYT specialized children’s hospital. A. Filipishina, Ombudsman’s Representative for the respect of children’s rights, nondiscrimination and gender equality, and NPM Department employees immediately went to this hospital and visited victims. Children admitted for in-patient treatment because of the received injuries told that they had been unreasonably apprehended by the law enforcement at the intersection of Instytutska and Shovkovychna Streets in Kyiv. According to the children, police violently treated them immediately after arrest and degraded their human dignity. Victims reported on having been brought to Podilsky District police station as late as five hours upon apprehension and had to wait for hospitalization for another six hours. According to medical staff children arrived in the condition of damages of average severity. The Secretariat staff also visited Podilsky District Department of MIA Main Department in the City of Kyiv, from which the children were taken to hospital after their arrest. This visit revealed a number of violations of children’s rights in the operation of the said district police unit. Specifically, the minors, with injuries from the police, were for a long time (about three hours) after delivery to the police station held in police vehicles, without medical assistance, at below-zero outside temperature, without water and with no possibility to satisfy their natural needs. In violation of Art. 208 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of Ukraine and of the Provisions on notification of centers of secondary free legal aid (approved by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on December 28, 2011, No. 1363) the arresting officers failed to properly notify the center of free legal aid immediately after the minors’ arrest,