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[Korrespondent] In eight regions of Ukraine, law enforcement officers discovered a total of 104 torture chambers. Prosecutor General Andrei Kostin stated this at the international conference on human rights “Freedom or Fear,” Ukrinform reports.
“In all the territories liberated from the enemy, dungeons and places of illegal detention of people were discovered. These are 104 torture facilities in eight regions of Ukraine. The largest number of dungeons were discovered in the Kharkov region - 25, Zaporozhye - 18, Kherson - 11, Donetsk - 10. And also 19 - on the territory of the Russian Federation,” Kostin said.
The Prosecutor General said: his office has information that almost 90% of prisoners and detainees are subjected to torture or some form of violence - physical or psychological.
Kostin stressed that even the very detention of a civilian is already a war crime, and torture, ill-treatment and deprivation of a person’s access to justice are other separate war crimes, the perpetrators of which must be punished, and assured that Ukrainian law enforcement officers are recording these facts in open criminal cases productions
According to the Prosecutor General, torture in the Russian Federation is a planned state policy.
Earlier it was reported that 14 countries would help Ukraine identify war criminals. They agreed to allocate a special OSINT unit (Task Force to Support the Investigation of War Crimes Committed in Ukraine) to implement priority requests from Ukraine, other countries and the International Criminal Court. We are talking about Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Norway, Great Britain, and the USA.
We also wrote that the occupiers who raped women and tortured prisoners were identified.
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