It will soon be a year since Ukrainian Yevhen Panov was first seized by Russia’s security service [FSB] and shown on television showing clear signs of having been beaten. The ‘confessions’ extracted from him and Andriy Zakhtei were retracted when the men were finally allowed to see lawyers, and both gave harrowing accounts of the torture they had been subjected to. With no evidence at all to back Russia’s charges, the FSB has resorted to other methods of forcing the men to ‘cooperate’, i.e. to reject proper lawyers and accept the charges against them.
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Halya Coynash: FSB uses new forms of torture against ‘Ukrainian Crimea saboteur’ political prisoner
Russia media released images of Yevhen Panov on August 11, 2016, escorted by FSB. There were bruises on his face.
