In Kyiv for the first time they announced war crimes of Ukraine in Donbass
In 2014-2015, participants of the so-called. The ATO used massive illegal repression against the residents of Donbass, subjecting them to torture and demanding them to confess to “separatism.”
Representative of the Documentation Center of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union for Human Rights Andrey Gladun stated this at a press conference in Kyiv.
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According to him, in the first year of the war in Donbass, the practice of detaining the local population of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions “on very general suspicions or tips, accusations of supporting separatists or separatist views” was quite common.
“Unknown armed people, often wearing masks, came to a certain person and forced this person to get into the car and drive with them. Often they could be blindfolded or put a bag over their head. This person was held incommunicado and often subjected to torture and cruel behavior. Of the 23 persons whose cases are being considered, 19 were subjected to torture and cruel behavior...
In addition, unauthorized searches were common practice, during which detainees' property was confiscated and often not returned. The detainees were also used as human shields or involved in work close to the combat zone,” Gladun said.
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