tortures
Oct. 7 2021, 6:16 pm
Reuters: Russia investigates prison torture videos (VIDEO)
Russian authorities said they have fired five senior prison officials and opened a slew of criminal investigations into alleged torture and sexual …
Reuters
Oct. 5 2021, 1:03 pm
RFE/RL: Russian rights defender shares shocking videos on prison ‘torture machine’
A prominent Russian human rights defender says his team has obtained a large batch of videos that he claims show prison inmates being tortured by …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
July 12 2021, 3:11 pm
EXCLUSIVE
Belarusian officers accused of torturing Ukrainian citizen
The Belarusian security services tortured 24-year-old Ukrainian citizen Pavlo Rabeshko for six hours during his July 3 detention in Pinsk, human …
Liza Semko
July 9 2021, 8:27 pm
Kyiv condemns torture of Ukrainian citizen Rabeshko in Belarus
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine strongly condemns the torture of Ukrainian citizen Pavlo Rabeshko by the Belarusian execution authorities …
Interfax-Ukraine
July 2 2021, 10:26 pm
Newsweek: UN reports 4,000 potentially tortured during Russia’s war
A report published by the United Nations human rights agency on July 2 said prisoners captured in Russia-Ukraine war in eastern Ukraine have …
Newsweek
June 6 2021, 3:27 pm
The Telegraph: Inside secret torture prison run by Ukraine’s Russian-backed separatists
For three days in a row, Ruslan Zakharov was taken to the basement of a prison that does not technically exist, where his captors would take a field …
The Telegraph
March 4 2021, 9:29 pm
Washington Post: He told the world about torture in Syria. Then, mysteriously, he went back
LONDON — With his gaunt frame, haunted face and copious tears, Mazen al-Hamada became a poster boy for the suffering of Syrian torture victims. After …
Washington Post
Sept. 6 2020, 5:30 am
Deutsche Welle: Systematic torture in eastern Ukraine’s prisons
Stanislav Aseyev spent more than two years in a secret prison run by Russian-backed separatists in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, which they …
Deutsche Welle
Aug. 18 2020, 2:34 pm
OpenDemocracy: One woman’s ordeal in detention in Belarus
Following contested presidential elections in Belarus, the country’s law enforcement has responded to protests with violence, arbitrary arrests and …
Open Democracy
May 26 2020, 9:04 am
UNIAN: Tortures in Donbas – Ukraine prosecutors identify about 600 victims
Ukrainian prosecutors in Luhansk region have identified about 600 victims who have suffered torture in Russia-occupied Donbas. Read more here.
UNIAN
May 9 2020, 10:52 am
Ukrainska Pravda: Former hostages share their memories of tortures in Donbas
The Izolyatsia (“Isolation”) is a prison run by Russia-backed militants in the occupied part of Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast. People who were unlucky to …
Ukrainska Pravda
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EuroMaidan Press
April 22 2020, 8:13 pm
Meduza: New evidence published of Russian mercenaries torturing and killing Syrian man
The newspaper Novaya Gazeta has published two new videos corroborating the brutal torture and murder of a man in Syria. Mercenaries from the “Wagner” …
Meduza
April 19 2020, 12:11 pm
RFE/RL: 6th anniversary of the death of Yuriy Popravka, executed by Donbas separatists
18-year-old Yuriy Popravka was one of the first Ukrainian activists to be tortured and executed during the Russian aggression in the Donbas. He died …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
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EuroMaidan Press
March 17 2020, 9:41 pm
RFE/RL: Crimean Tatar activist describes 6 years under Russian rule
Six years ago, Russia seized Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula. Since then, the Crimean Tatars — who almost unanimously opposed and resisted the Russian …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Feb. 13 2020, 7:18 pm
The Economist: How Russian show trials expose imaginary plots
Six or seven men in balaclavas walked into a prison cell in Penza, a provincial Russian town 400 miles (650km) south-east of Moscow. They told their …
The Economist
Feb. 5 2020, 10:07 pm
Hromadske: ‘I prayed for me to be shot’ – Ukrainian on her 2-year captivity
Maryna Chuykova, a Horlivka citizen, along with 75 other Ukrainians, was released on New Year’s Eve after nearly two years of captivity by the …
Hromadske International
Jan. 19 2020, 10:57 am
EuroMaidan Press: Ex-captives share horrors of Donbas basement prisons
A massive prisoner swap in which Ukrainian POWs and civilian hostages held in occupied Donbas were released became one of the major events of 2019 for …
EuroMaidan Press
Dec. 21 2019, 5:34 pm
Hromadske: As Ukraine’s conflict grinds on, lawyers take to the frontline
Illegal detentions, torture, forced labor – in Ukraine, lawyers are working on over 4,000 cases aimed at getting justice for people whose human rights …
Hromadske International
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