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Leading human rights groups have called on Ukrainian authorities to launch an investigation into enforced disappearances after details emerged of a "secret prison" being used by the country's security service.

The SBU, Ukrainian’s successor agency to the KGB, secretly held some prisoners for over a year at a covert facility in Kharkiv, a city in eastern Ukraine, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said in a joint statement on August 29.

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