A large number of prisoners held in makeshift detention centers in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine were tortured and sexually violated, a team of international experts said on Wednesday in a summary of their latest findings. | Reuters
The Mobile Justice Team’s latest report, funded by Britain, the European Union and the United States, analyzed 320 cases and witness accounts at 35 locations in the Kherson region.
In June, Ukrainian prosecutors brought their first case over the alleged deportation of dozens of orphans from Kherson, charging a Russian politician and two suspected Ukrainian collaborators with war crimes. They provided no immediate comment to the latest findings on torture.Reuters reported in January on the scale of alleged torture in Kherson. Ukrainian authorities said at the time that around 200 people had allegedly been illegally held.
“The true scale of Russia’s war crimes remains unknown,” Anna Mykytenko, senior legal adviser at Global Rights Compliance, said of the latest findings on torture.
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