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Ukrinform: UN still denied access to prisoners in occupied Donbas

Published Sept. 17, 2019 at 2:23 pm

People cross the river over the destroyed bridge from the Stanytsia Luhanska village to the separatists-controlled territory of Luhansk Oblast, eastern Ukraine, on August 1, 2019.

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The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights is concerned about conditions of detention of persons in the territory of self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic” and “Luhansk People’s Republic.”

Head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine Matilda Bogner stated this while presenting a report on the human rights situation in Ukraine between May 16 and August 15, 2019, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.