According to the study, Ukrainian prisoners were raped, watered and subjected to electric shocks to the genitals in at least 20 Kremlin-funded dungeons in the occupied Kherson region. I.
According to a report by international human rights lawyer Global Rights Compliance, men and women detained by Russian troops during the occupation of the southern region were beaten, choked with gas masks and threatened with genital mutilation.
Wayne Jordash KC, who leads the company’s mobile justice team set up to help Ukraine’s attorney general expose Russia’s war crimes, said I that the common technique was to have the victim use a malfunctioning electrical object, such as a telephone, to electrocute himself.
The “alarming” number of cases points to sexualized torture as a “common tactic,” a British lawyer said when his team released the results of their investigation on the day the Russians occupied Kherson. The area was liberated in November during a Ukrainian counteroffensive, after which the cameras were discovered.
A team funded by the UK Foreign Office, the EU Foreign Office and the US has assessed more than 1,000 reports from torture chamber survivors.
Some people were killed or died of wounds in the cells, Jordash said, adding that the guards “regularly” removed the body bags.
Prosecutors noted a wide variety of targets, including teachers, journalists, priests, local businessmen and ordinary citizens, adding that they were treated with “extreme cruelty.”
“The only thing that connects them seems to be a sign of their Ukrainian identity. It turns out that everyone in Kherson faced inevitable imprisonment and torture.”
According to the investigation, the torture chambers were funded directly by the Kremlin, with the KC saying they were not “arbitrary” but “part of an elaborate and funded plan with the clear aim of destroying Ukrainian nationalities and cultural property.” personality”.
Previously unreleased footage claims to show the interior of cells used to “pacify, retrain, or kill leaders of Ukrainian citizens and ordinary dissenters.” About 400 detainees are reported missing.
Giordash praised the “extraordinary spirit and courage” of Ukrainians under the occupation, pointing to stories of teachers refusing to cooperate with the Russians, which led to their imprisonment.
The photograph shows the ceiling of the room, blackened by alleged attempts by the Russians to cover up their practice by burning tires.
Another image shows graffiti on the wall, including a calendar believed to have been made by one or more of the prisoners and dated September 2022.
The study also pointed to brainwashing by Ukrainian prisoners, when they were forced to learn and recite pro-Russian slogans, poems and songs scrawled on the walls of some cells.
A torture chamber was found in the basement of an office building and another in a former pre-trial detention center.
The centers were reportedly run by various Russian security forces, including the Federal Security Service (FSB), the local Kherson FSB and the Russian Penitentiary Service.
Giordash said: “Torture centers are the tip of the iceberg in Russia’s inherently criminal plan to subjugate or destroy Ukrainians. They are designed to disenfranchise and exterminate large segments of the Ukrainian population so that the rest can be enslaved.
“This is further evidence of the genocidal tactics embedded in Putin’s plan to erase Ukrainian identity in territories under Russian occupation.”
The lawyer believes that there are many more torture chambers in the occupied territories financed from Putin’s credit card.
Source: I News
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