Russia allegedly operated at least 20 torture prisons in the Ukrainian city of Kherson during the occupation. They are said to have been part of an elaborate plan to destroy Ukraine’s national and cultural identity.
Today Kherson has been liberated, but the atrocities will never be forgotten. For eight months, from March 2 to November 11, 2022, the city was under Russian occupation. More than a thousand testimonies have now been collected that report on Russian torture prisons.
Planned by the Russian state
“New evidence from recently liberated Kherson shows that torture chambers were planned and funded directly by the Russian state,” the EU, UK and US-funded Mobile Justice Team said on Thursday.
The torture facilities in the area from which Russian troops withdrew in November were operated by, among others, Russia’s domestic secret service FSB and Russian prison authorities, the research group said. More than 400 people are missing. The Russian presidential office has not yet commented on the matter.
Who ended up in the torture chambers?
In First line people associated with Ukrainian state authorities or civil society – activists, journalists, civil servants and teachers – were imprisoned in the notorious prisons. Also became over there People accommodated, bee That man I am had seized “pro-Ukrainian” material in their mobile phones during roadside checks.
Cruel methods
In the torture chambers, people were beaten and electrocuted. In addition, waterboarding was used – a method of simulated drowning that can cause severe to irreversible trauma-reactive illnesses. The prisoners were also forced to learn and recite pro-Russian poems and songs.
International Criminal Court in The Hague determined
Reuters had already reported in January about torture facilities in Kherson from the time of the Russian occupation. The International Criminal Court in The Hague is also investigating war crimes in Ukraine. The Mobile Justice Team, set up by the Global Rights Compliance foundation around British lawyer Wayne Jordash, supports Ukrainian prosecutors in investigating war crimes.
Source: Krone
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