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    Journalist Victoria Roshchyna Dies in Captivity while in One of the Most Brutal Detention Centers of Russia
    Journalist Victoria Roshchyna Dies in Captivity while in One of the Most Brutal Detention Centers of Russia

    Former captives speak about Taganrog Pre-Trial Detention Center No. 2 as a most brutal torture camp. This is where journalist Victoria Roshchyna was kept. Her death was announced yesterday, October 10.

    11 October 2024

    A Resident of Melitopol, Kidnapped Together with her Husband by Occupiers, Dies in Russian Captivity
    A Resident of Melitopol, Kidnapped Together with her Husband by Occupiers, Dies in Russian Captivity

    Melitopol is one of the Ukrainian cities that Russia captured in the first days of a full-scale […]

    4 October 2024

    In the Luhansk Region, a Village Head, Tortured by Russians, Escaped from the Occupation
    In the Luhansk Region, a Village Head, Tortured by Russians, Escaped from the Occupation

    Because she was a patriot and refused to collaborate with the Russians, Halyna Hlobchasta, the head of Makiyivka and Hrekivka villages in the Luhansk Region? became a target for the occupiers. She was abducted, detained, and tortured within the walls of the Makiyivka school, where she had worked for many years. Eventually, she escaped from occupation with her husband and now lives in the Ukraine-controlled territory.

    27 September 2024

    He Was Tortured with Electricity and Faced an Attempted Rape. The Story of a Kherson Resident Who Shared a Cell with Kherson Mayor Kolykhaiev and Almost Committed Suicide in Captivity
    He Was Tortured with Electricity and Faced an Attempted Rape. The Story of a Kherson Resident Who Shared a Cell with Kherson Mayor Kolykhaiev and Almost Committed Suicide in Captivity

    Viktor Soldatov, a system administrator at the Kherson Shipyard, spent exactly nine months in Russian captivity. In an interview with MIHR, he shared his experience of the occupiers’ abuse of him, his cellmate Ihor Kolykhaiev, the Mayor of Kherson, his unexpected release, and the health issues he faced after the torture.

    27 August 2024

    “15 years of imprisonment for him is a death sentence.” Where the Russians are holding and why they are prosecuting Serhiy Kotov, a driving instructor from Oleshky
    “15 years of imprisonment for him is a death sentence.” Where the Russians are holding and why they are prosecuting Serhiy Kotov, a driving instructor from Oleshky

    Driving instructor Serhiy Kotov was one of those taken by the Russian military from his home in Oleshky, on the left bank of Kherson region. For more than two years, the Russians have been holding him captive, and recently "sentenced" him to 15 years in prison, allegedly for espionage.

    13 June 2024

    Terrorism and attempted arson of a person: what the Russians accuse Kostiantyn Zinovkin from Melitopol of and where he is held
    Terrorism and attempted arson of a person: what the Russians accuse Kostiantyn Zinovkin from Melitopol of and where he is held

    The Russians occupied Melitopol in the first days of the full-scale invasion. They immediately seized the administrative buildings and started dispersing pro-Ukrainian protests with weapons, abducting local residents and holding them hostage. Kostiantyn Zinovkin, who stayed in Melitopol to care for his mother and grandmother, was not spared either.

    12 February 2024

    The price of freedom: the story of Snovsk mayor’s release from captivity
    The price of freedom: the story of Snovsk mayor’s release from captivity

    Oleksandr Medvediov, mayor of Snovsk in Chernihiv Region, was taken hostage in March 2022 when Russian forces invaded the city. Captured by enemy soldiers, he endured several days in handcuffs, subjected to brutal interrogation and physical abuse, including a broken shoulder blade, and faced a ransom demand for his release.

    5 January 2024

    Attack on a school, abduction, captivity. How residents of Mykhailo-Kotsiubynske in Chernihiv Region survived the occupation
    Attack on a school, abduction, captivity. How residents of Mykhailo-Kotsiubynske in Chernihiv Region survived the occupation

    Mykhailo-Kotsiubynske is a residential community near Chernihiv, where about three thousand people lived before the full-scale invasion. It was directly in the path of the Russian army to Chernobyl. The village came under occupation on February 28 and was liberated on April 2. An MIHR fact finder recorded accounts of the ordeal.

    29 December 2023

    MIHR discovered a torture chamber in Sumy Region: a victim recognized all of it
    MIHR discovered a torture chamber in Sumy Region: a victim recognized all of it

    Boromlia and Trostianets are population centers in the Okhtyrka community of Sumy Region. At the start of the full-scale invasion by the Russian Federation, they came under occupation. The invaders kidnapped, tortured, and killed civilians. MIHR came here on a field mission and discovered five sites where Russians illegally detained civilians. In Boromlia, people were held on the premises of a local enterprise, and in Trostianets – at the railway station, brick factory, grain silo, and police department.

    27 December 2023

    For the first time, the UN illegally has recorded the problem of Ukrainian civilian hostages held by Russia: what will it do?
    For the first time, the UN illegally has recorded the problem of Ukrainian civilian hostages held by Russia: what will it do?

    On 19 December, 2023,  the UN General Assembly adopted an updated resolution on the situation of human […]

    19 December 2023

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