Torture, Abuse and Humiliation of Civilians. The Prosecutor’s Office Suspects Ten Russian Occupiers
Prosecutors from the Kherson Regional Prosecutor’s Office have issued in absentia notices of suspicion to ten representatives of the armed formations of the Russian Federation and the ‘DPR’, as well as FSB employees, for cruel treatment of the civilian population and other violations of the laws and customs of war (Part 2 of Article 28, Part 1 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
According to the investigation:
In August 2022, three suspects – FSB officers and a pseudo-police officer – tortured local residents in the temporarily occupied town of Beryslav. They held a man in a captured detention centre for over a month in degrading conditions, subjecting him to torture, including electric shocks.
In March 2022, three members of the illegal armed group known as the ‘DNR’ tortured a civilian, accusing him of supporting Ukraine. The victim was beaten, tortured with red-hot metal, deprived of food and water, and held in unsanitary conditions;
Four more – employees of the special services and military personnel of the Russian Federation – conducted illegal interrogations of local residents in the temporarily occupied cities of Kherson, Bilozerka and Skadovsk. They were beaten, tortured until they lost consciousness, forced to cooperate, and held in uninhabitable premises without proper sanitary conditions.
The investigation is being conducted by investigators from the Security Service of Ukraine in the Kherson region and the Main Directorate of the National Police in the region.
