torture
A story of a man spent two months in captivity in the Russian pre-trial detention center with other civilians and volunteers
Yevhen Yamkovyi, a resident of Kahovka, a city in the Kherson region on the left bank of the Dnipro river occupied by Russian forces, was detained at the checkpoint “Armyansk” in the northern part of the Crimean peninsula on January 6, 2023. Then, he was transferred to the pre-trial detention center No. 2 in Simferopol, […]
A witness account of abduction and torture in Hornostaivka village, Kherson region
Read a full witness testimony of Serhii, a Kherson region resident, about his abduction and torture experience. Due to safety concerns, ZMINA changed the name of the torture survivor
Torture as a policy of suppressing Ukraine’s resistance to the Russian invasion – Report
The analytical report, prepared by ZMINA, provides a detailed account of documented policies, locations, profiles of main targets among civilians, and portraits of typical perpetrators of Russian occupying forces in Ukraine who brutally mistreated people from the Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Kherson regions
Volunteer Yaroslav Zhuk stated that he was tortured in the Rostov pre-trial detention center
Yaroslav Zhuk made a statement about torture with a shocker and brutal beating by officials of the Rostov-on-Don pre-trial detention center as soon as the court hearing in his case based on trumped-up charges began in early June of this year. Zhuk is a car mechanic and a resident of Melitopol, a city in the […]
OHCHR documented widespread practices of torture and ill-treatment of Ukrainian civilian detainees by Russian armed forces
Of 38 released civilians (34 men, 4 women) interviewed by OHCHR in the mentioned period, 33 individuals reported having various forms of torture or ill-treatment inflicted on them while in detention, in order to force them to confess to having cooperated with the Ukrainian armed forces, to force them to cooperate with Russian armed forces or affiliated armed groups, or simply to intimidate them
‘Do you need a corpse?’: reportage from Izyum hospital where hundreds of civilians, including those tortured almost to death by Russians, were saved during occupation
From the beginning of the full-scale invasion and until the liberation of Izyum from the Russian occupiers, the Izyum Central Hospital did not stop working even for a day. During the month of the heaviest shelling and bombing, seven people, including a plumber, an electrician, nurses, a traumatologist and a surgeon, provided care to hundreds of injured and sick. ZMINA tells how surgeries were performed and babies were born in the basement of the dilapidated hospital, as well as how two civilians tortured almost to death by the Russians were saved here.
Ukrainian Balukh felt faint in the Crimean court
However, the judge decided to continue the court hearing...
Ukraine won the first case in the European Court related to the occupation of Luhansk
Judges have unanimously recognized that Ukraine is not responsible for the consequences of losing control over the territory of the Luhansk region
Police in Donetsk region tortured two men
One of men was kept in detention for three days and the other for one day incommunicado
The Parliament limited the entry of Crimean residents into universities only of 4 regions of the mainland Ukraine
"It took 20 minutes for the deputies to postpone for at least 10 years the issue of maintaining contacts with the peninsula and the possibility of reintegration"
Interpol ceases search for Yanukovych – National Police
Regarding the reasons for such actions on behalf of the Interpol, the Spokeperson of the National Police noted that only the General Prosecutor’s Office can provide sufficient commentary
Avdiivka is almost out of water – Head of Donetsk administration
Water in Avdiivka reservoirs is left for a maximum of two supplies..."
Unknown people stole sign of Amnesty International office in Kyiv and drew swastika on its place
Organization filed a complaint to the police
Visit of UN SPT to Ukraine’s Security Service premises: Service’s report, thoughts of human rights defenders
The delegation received unfettered and immediate access to all the SBU premises, the Security Service assures
Human rights activists have no access to Panov, arrested in Crimea
Human rights activists have no access to Ukrainian citizen Yevhen Panov, who was arrested by FSB in Crimea
Tortures cannot help get reliable information – research
Tortures adversely affect the personal integrity of both a victim and a law enforcement officer who uses them
Ukrainian officer describes horrors of Don Cossacks’ captivity
The prisoners were often beaten in the face with gunstocks, beaten with pallets, stabbed
OHCHR report: Life prisoners in Donetsk region subjected to mock execution for their pro-unity Ukrainian views
The detainees were severely beaten for three days with the involvement of local ‘police’ to “teach them a lesson”
Columns
More than 60 Crimean political prisoners are already in need of urgent medical care: How to solve this problem
Ukrainian parliament appeals for NATO membership as foundation for lasting peace
Ukraine rejects “pacifying the aggressor” as a path to peace
“Appeasement never works”: Lessons from Bosnia’s post-war justice
