Torture Archives - Page 4 of 8

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Political prisoners

“There is no greater humiliation than reducing a person to an animal without any rights.” Kremlin hostages share their prison survival strategies

Тoday, 127 Ukrainian citizens are illegally imprisoned in Russia and occupied Crimea for political reasons, and 283 Ukrainians…

byBohdan Ben

4 minute read

GULAGU.Net exposes systemic torture and rape of prisoners in Russia; regime responds with investigations and denial of service attack on portal

The portal GULAGU.Net (“No to the GULAG” - a volunteer project against corruption and torture in Russia) has…

byPaul A. Goble

5 minute read

Kyiv photographer displays the wounds of war

In 2014, Russia invaded and occupied Crimea and certain parts of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts, thus breaching international…

byChristine Chraibi

16 minute read

Painkillers instead of hospital: Russia’s torture of critically-ill Crimean Tatar political prisoners continues unabated

Medzhyt Abdurakhmanov Medzhyt Abdurakhmanov is one of the Crimean Tatar political prisoners held in captivity for a crime…

byYuliia Rudenko

12 minute read

“Hell. Despair. The feeling of absurdity.” Ukrainian journalist jailed in occupied Crimea describes FSB torture in harrowing letters

Who is Vladyslav Yesypenko? Vladyslav Yesypenko comes from Kryvyi Rih, a city in central Ukraine. A year before…

byYuliia Rudenko

7 minute read

Protasevich’s “confession”: KGB Chairman Andropov’s specialty

Over the past days, Belarus State television has shown several times footage with Belarus oppositionist Roman Protasevich confessing…

byRobert van Voren

9 minute read

Russian Aggression

Three warders who tortured prisoners in occupied Donbas “concentration camp” ID’d as Russian citizens

Ukrainian journalist Stanislav Aseyev, a former captive of the Russian-run "Donetsk People's Republic," has reported on his Facebook…

byYuri Zoria

10 minute read

War in Donbas

First public photos of Russian-run Donetsk concentration camp leaked online

Cells, torture tools, and the yard: these are the first-ever public photos of the Russian-hybrid-forces-run Izolyatsia prison. The…

byRadio Liberty

21 minute read

I narrowly escaped death in dungeons of the “Luhansk People’s Republic.” This is what saved me. Part 2

Communication with the outside world A very colorful type appeared in the cell. They tossed in a person…

byTexty.org.ua

29 minute read

I survived the basement prisons of the “Luhansk People’s Republic.” Here is what I saw. Part 1

Summer of 2014. At that time I worked as the deputy chief of the Luhansk Regional State Hospital…

byTexty.org.ua

18 minute read

International

Chilling testimonies of police brutality, humiliation & “re-education” amid vicious crackdown on Belarusian protesters

Aleksei Khudanov, the journalist I was arrested in Minsk on the night of August 9-10, and spent the…

byWorld Media

18 minute read

Russian Aggression

Donetsk art center turned into concentration camp: former hostages share their memories

Over the five years of its existence, several hundred people - both militants and locals suspected of spying…

byUkrayinska Pravda

6 minute read

War in Donbas

6th anniversary of the death of Yuriy Popravka, tortured & executed by “DNR” militants

Backround: “Yarosh’s business card” In the spring of 2014, Ukraine was going through tumultuous times, daily events were…

byRadio Liberty

9 minute read

Surviving the “DNR/LNR”. Photo project reveals the horror of captivity

Among the heroes of the photo project called “After Captivity”, there are several well-known prisoners, namely artist Serhiy…

byRadio Liberty

11 minute read

Russian Aggression

“Russians taught how to torture.” Ex-captives of Donbas “republics” share horrors of basement prisons

A massive prisoner swap in which Ukrainian POWs and civilian hostages held in occupied Donbas were released became…

byOlena Makarenko

7 minute read

Political prisoners

Stanislav Klykh, heavily tortured Ukrainian political prisoner of the Kremlin, launches hunger strike

Ukrainian political prisoner of the Kremlin Stanislav Klykh has started a hunger strike in a Russian prison, according…

byAlya Shandra

10 minute read

Former Ukrainian hostage Kostenko tells of FSB’s torture to extract “confessions”

Former political prisoner and Crimean Euromaidan activist Oleksandr Kostenko continues to experience severe health problems after injuries sustained…

byKseniya Kirillova

Former hostages after their captivity in the occupied Donbas.

8 minute read

A month of freedom: released hostages tell about captivity and torture in occupied Donbas

Read the prisoner swap story: Largest prisoner swap in Donbas: 73 Ukrainians released from captivity of Russian-run “republics” Three…

byYuri Zoria

9 minute read

Hybrid War

BBC: How the “DNR” special services & troll factory scare Russians with terror attacks

Masked faces, distorted voices, poses from action movies and ready-to-use firearms - the Russian-language Internet is full of…

byBBC

Bloody Handprints (Image: novayagazeta.ru)

3 minute read

Moscow continues to cover up mass murder by Chechen authorities

Novaya gazeta has made continuing contributions to exposing the vicious violence of Ramzan Kadyrov’s regime against its opponents,…

byPaul A. Goble

Torture

“There is no greater humiliation than reducing a person to an animal without any rights.” Kremlin hostages share their prison survival strategies

GULAGU.Net exposes systemic torture and rape of prisoners in Russia; regime responds with investigations and denial of service attack on portal

Kyiv photographer displays the wounds of war

Painkillers instead of hospital: Russia’s torture of critically-ill Crimean Tatar political prisoners continues unabated

“Hell. Despair. The feeling of absurdity.” Ukrainian journalist jailed in occupied Crimea describes FSB torture in harrowing letters

Protasevich’s “confession”: KGB Chairman Andropov’s specialty

Three warders who tortured prisoners in occupied Donbas “concentration camp” ID’d as Russian citizens

First public photos of Russian-run Donetsk concentration camp leaked online

I narrowly escaped death in dungeons of the “Luhansk People’s Republic.” This is what saved me. Part 2

I survived the basement prisons of the “Luhansk People’s Republic.” Here is what I saw. Part 1

Chilling testimonies of police brutality, humiliation & “re-education” amid vicious crackdown on Belarusian protesters

Donetsk art center turned into concentration camp: former hostages share their memories

6th anniversary of the death of Yuriy Popravka, tortured & executed by “DNR” militants

Surviving the “DNR/LNR”. Photo project reveals the horror of captivity

“Russians taught how to torture.” Ex-captives of Donbas “republics” share horrors of basement prisons

Stanislav Klykh, heavily tortured Ukrainian political prisoner of the Kremlin, launches hunger strike

Former Ukrainian hostage Kostenko tells of FSB’s torture to extract “confessions”

A month of freedom: released hostages tell about captivity and torture in occupied Donbas

BBC: How the “DNR” special services & troll factory scare Russians with terror attacks

Moscow continues to cover up mass murder by Chechen authorities

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