KIEV (Sputnik) — According to local police, over 50 people were detained in several Ukrainian cities on Tuesday during the World War II commemoration events, most of them in Kiev, over creating public disturbances and using communist-related symbols banned from the public display.
"[The law] should be simply abolished in its current form. It cannot exist," Oksana Pokalchuk, executive director at Amnesty International in Ukraine, told with Ukrainian News agency.
"This law is violating human rights," Pokalchuk said.
According to media reports, Tuesday's World War II commemoration events in Ukraine have been marred by clashes between the events participants and nationalists over the use of communism symbols by the former.
In 2015, Ukrainian authorities adopted a packed of laws on decommunization. Apart from banning the use of Soviet symbols, the legislation stipulates the demolition of monuments commemorating communist figures and renaming streets and inhabited areas named after them.
