Bellingcat identifies citizens of Russia involved in torture in Donetsk prison (Photos)
Donetsk’s Izoliatsia prison / Photo from t.me/traktorist_dn
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update: More Than 3,400 Detained In Russia By Police Amid Violent Clashes With Protesters Demanding Release Of Navalny
WATCH: Clashes, Brutal Beatings As Police Crack Down On Protesters In Moscow
Read moreNew Bills Threaten To Further Sideline Russia’s Embattled Opposition
The ways Russian protesters can get together has dwindled in recent years.
Read moreUN calls on Russia to stop tortures and lift ban on Mejlis activities in Crimea
The UN calls on the Russian Federation to comply with the absolute prohibition of torture and to lift the ban on independent media and the activities of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people. This is stated in the third report of the UN Secretary-General on the human rights situation in Crimea, entitled “Situation of human rights in the Autonomous
Read more‘Stop Torturing Protesters,’ UN Experts Tell Belarus
The UN’s special rapporteur on torture told Belarus on Tuesday that it must “stop torturing protesters” and bring to justice any police officers who have beaten them with impunity. Nils Melzer and 14 other UN human rights experts said in a statement they had received reports of 450 documented cases of torture and ill-treatment of people deprived of their liberty
Read moreRussian FSB tortures detainees in occupied Crimea – UN
Employees of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation and other law enforcement authorities in Crimea, use torture; in particular beatings, electric shocks and suffocation, to force victims to incriminate themselves, cooperate with law enforcement or testify against others. This was said in a recently published report by the UN Secretary-General on human rights violations in the temporarily
Read more6th anniversary of the death of Yuriy Popravka, tortured & executed by “DNR” militants
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 somewhere between 17 and 20 April, 2014. “According to the official investigation, the murder of my son Yuriy, and activists Yuriy Diakovsky and Volodymyr Rybak was personally supervised by Igor “Strelkov” Girkin.” – says Yuriy’s mother today. This
Read moreRussian Newspaper Forced To Take Down Chechnya Coronavirus Report, Author Threatened
The article on coronavirus measures in Chechnya raised the ire of the region’s strongman Ramzan Kadyrov.
Read moreU.S. Embassy Urges Russian Authorities To Investigate Ponomaryov’s Beating
Russian human rights activist Lev Ponomaryov (right) speaks with a police officer during a rally in front of the FSB headquarters in central Moscow on March 14.
Read moreUN Human Rights Monitoring Mission: Detainees tortured systematically in occupied Donbas
The detainees are systematically tortured, including by mock executions and electric shocks, in the occupied areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions in eastern Ukraine. “In self-proclaimed republics, we recorded a systematic practice of torture and ill-treatment of detainees. The frequency, intensity and length of the torture and ill-treatment varied considerably, however they usually continued until a detainee agreed to confess
Read moreDay of Crimea’s resistance to Russian occupation marked today
Day of Crimea’s resistance to Russian occupation is marked annually on February 26. Six years ago, on 26 February 2014, a several thousand strong rally of pro-Ukrainian activists and Crimean Tatars in support of the territorial integrity of Ukraine and against holding an extraordinary session of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea took place in Simferopol. About 12,000 Crimean Tatars gathered
Read moreRussia’s ‘Heinous’ Sentencing Of Seven Activists Sparks Social Media Outrage
Seven men who received sentences of six to 18 years appear in court in the Volga Military District Court in Russia.
Read moreKyiv and Moscow agreed on scenario of all-for-all exchange, – source
18:53, 27 November 2019 Exchange of 250 people for 100 is being discussed. Negotiations between Ukraine and Russia on a large-scale “all-for-all” exchange are in the final stages. RBC reported it, citing the sources. “The important issue now is the exchange of all established persons for all established persons between Kyiv and Donbas. The lists have already been agreed and approved,” the source said.
Read more“DPR” secret prisons employ torture experts, not random people: ex-captives
A secret “DPR” prison opened in the summer of 2014. It hosted those whom pro-Russian forces sought to break down to get guilty pleas. Often, people would tell on themselves, giving up to torture. Despite the fact that the “DPR” doesn’t recognize the very existence of this “concentration camp”, it is still operating. UNIAN sat down with former inmates to
Read moreChechen Official Apologizes for Torturing Detainees With Taser
An official in the North Caucasus republic of Chechnya has apologized for using a taser on women detained under suspicion of fraud, Chechen media reported Monday. Video showing Islam Kadyrov, the former mayor of Chechnya’s capital Grozny, using a stun gun against detainees to obtain evidence from them aired on the Grozny television channel late last month. Law enforcement authorities
Read more‘They Tried to Break Me, Then Offered Me a Deal,’ Sentsov Says of Russian Imprisonment
Oleg Sentsov was the most high-profile prisoner among the 35 Ukrainian detainees who returned home last month in exchange for 35 prisoners wanted by Russia. The 43-year-old filmmaker was detained in Crimea in 2014 and sentenced to 20 years in a Russian maximum security prison on terrorism charges he says were trumped up. The European Union said Sentsov’s case was
Read moreEx-Kremlin prisoners tell about torture, horrors of Russian prisons
Olena Makarenko After eleven Ukrainian political prisoners of Kremlin returned to Ukraine, they started to describe the conditions of Russian prisons where they were kept in, as well as how they were tortured to extract the “confessions” necessary for the sham trials. Some describe the torture they suffered as mild and insignificant, some experienced real horrors. The stories show that
Read moreGetting away with torture in Russia’s criminal justice system
11:15 am, September 16, 2019· Every year, Russian courts issue about 1,000 sentences under Article 286, Part 3 of Russia’s Criminal Codex. While there is no formal definition of “torture” in Russian criminal law (which makes government torture very difficult to track), it is Article 286, Part 3 that punishes violent overreach by government officials and members of the military.
Read moreReleased political prisoner Karpyuk told about torture in Russian prison: He was tortured with electric shock, kept awake, subjected to use of psychotropic substances
Mykola Karpyuk, who was released from a Russian prison, told ATR channel that he and another political prisoner, Stanislav Klykh, were tortured in Russia with electric shocks, Russian enforcers prevented him from sleeping, used psychotropic substances and could have implanted a “chip”. “When it gets dark, they bring me out to the corridor – handcuffs, hands behind their back, put
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