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Comment by Parrhesia on April 24, 2022 at 12:23pm

This report includes the
results of interviews with over 200 prisoners released by the Ukrainian side.
The interviews were conducted by experts of the Foundation during the
period from 25 August 2014 to 20 January 2015.

The prisoners were electrocuted, beaten cruelly and for multiple
days in a row with different objects (iron bars, baseball bats, sticks, rifle
butts, bayonet knives, rubber batons).
Techniques widely used by the Ukrainian armed forces and security
forces include waterboarding, strangling with a ‘Banderist garrotte’ and
other types of strangling.
In some cases prisoners, for the purposes of intimidation, were sent
to minefields and run over with military vehicles, which led to their
death.
Other torture methods used by the Ukrainian armed forces and
security forces include bone-crashing, stabbing and cutting with a knife,
branding with red-hot objects, shooting different body parts with small
arms.
The prisoners taken captive by the Ukrainian armed forces and
security forces are kept for days at freezing temperatures, with no access
to food or medical assistance, and are often forced to take psychotropic
substances that cause agony.
An absolute majority of prisoners are put through mock firing
squads and suffer death and rape threats to their families.
Many of those tortured are not members of the self-defense forces of
the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR)1.
As the European Court of Human Rights opined, the Convention
on Human Rights prohibits in absolute terms torture, irrespective
of other circumstances.

PC.SHDM.NGO/17/16 (osce.org)