Amnesty International: SBU imprisons and tortures residents of Donbass without a court decision
The SBU illegally, without a court decision, detains and tortures Ukrainian citizens taken by security forces from the territory of Donbass. Denis Krivosheev, director of the human rights organization Amnesty International for Europe and Central Asia, stated this at a briefing in Kyiv.
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According to him, few managed to be released, and even fewer people agree to talk about it, fearing persecution.
“At the end of 2015, a woman from the city of Konstantinovka contacted us. According to her, a year earlier, armed masked men stole her husband from her house. Since that time, she has been knocking on the doors of government agencies with a request to find him. She received one answer to her questions - her husband, Konstantin Beskaravayny, “was not detained by representatives of the security forces.”
In January, Amnisty International issued an appeal calling on the Ukrainian authorities to clarify his fate. A month later he suddenly returned home. Upon his return, he spoke about how he was held and tortured at the SBU in Kramatorsk, forcing him to confess to preparing a terrorist attack, how he had to give evidence on camera and as a result ended up in the SBU in Kharkov, where he spent 15 months as an undetermined prisoner.
From 72 to 16 other persons were detained there at various times. They are all the same disappeared,” Krivosheev said.
Let us recall that earlier representatives of the DPR have repeatedly accused Kyiv of disrupting the exchange of prisoners according to the “all for all” formula, which is provided for by the Minsk agreements.
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