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 11/11/24  Prisoners… We often hear about political prisoners in Russia, and sometimes about Ukrainian POWs. But there’s another category of prisoners that remains almost entirely unknown to us: Ukrainian civilians captured by Russian forces in occupied territories. Any pretext can serve as a reason – from a photo of Russian equipment or a Ukrainian flag on their phone to a conversation in Ukrainian. According to human rights advocates, there are at least five times as many of these civilian prisoners as all recognized political prisoners in Russia.

Typically, these people disappear after their detention, and even close relatives remain in the dark about their fate for years. Occasionally, they surface in Russian propaganda segments – broken, bearing signs of torture, and forced to admit to absurd charges. But over time, the truth emerges, and it is shocking.

The first episode of the film focuses on three stories told by the relatives of Ukrainian civilian prisoners: a mother whose son was taken by the FSB, a wife whose husband was taken from her, and a young woman left without both parents due to Russian occupation.

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Inside Russia's torture system of Ukrainian civilians | DW News

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The State Duma has adopted a bill on the FSB's right to create pre-trial detention centers in the third reading As Vasily Piskarev, Chairman of the Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption and a member of United Russia, stated when introducing the document for consideration in the State Duma, the bill proposes returning pre-trial detention centers to the jurisdiction of the FSB, which were transferred to the penal system after Russia joined the Council of Europe in 2006. This will also allow the agency to create pre-trial detention centers and ensure the detention of suspects, defendants, and convicts in cases under the jurisdiction of "security agencies", as well as organize their delivery and escort.

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Доклад Ильи Яшина о Рамзане Кадырове. Полная версия

Ilya Yashin presents report against Ramzan Kadyrov in 2016

@ 21:00 - bomb threat

@ 26:00 - man intrudes yelling in favor of Kadyrov

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Жахи російського полону: історія захисника острова Зміїний Владислава За...

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Vlad Zadorin, Ukrainsk Soldat, tal Fria Ukrainas plats 25/05/07

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"We ate mice and toilet paper." A sailor from Zmiiniy Island about torture and starvation in captivity for a phrase about a Russian ship

The widespread popularity of the phrase "Russian warship" meant that the prisoners from Zmiyino faced particularly brutal abuse from their Russian jailers after their capture.

“This really worried the Russians,” says Vladislav Zadorin, a 26-year-old former marine. “They thought: how could ordinary soldiers send [such a message] to such a huge machine as the Russian military? We were constantly beaten for this.”

There were a lot of rapes, castrations. When they beat us with a rubber stick, they would come up and ask us questions: 'Do you like foie gras? Have you eaten foie gras?' And if you [say you have], they beat you on the liver," says a Ukrainian prisoner of war. "Or they ask: 'Do you like sweets?' And for any answer of 'yes' or 'no', they give you this stick, and you either lick it or suck it, imitating you know what."

“And this is the least of what they did with the stick, because many of the boys were raped,” Zadorin emphasizes. “And if at first they did it when they interrogated us to get some information, then after a while they did it just for fun. Because they needed something to do, to have fun!”

Later, according to him, new groups of investigators came to the prison one by one: "They learned how to beat us properly, how to interrogate Ukrainians, so that they could interrogate Russians in the same way."

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Supporting Ukrainians in Russian prisons Today we published a report on torture in cases of politically motivated criminal prosecution. Since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, torture in such cases has become many times more frequent. One of the most terrifying findings of the report: Ukrainians are tortured 4.4 times more often than citizens of Russia and other countries persecuted for political reasons. Human rights activists regularly publish information about the torture to which Ukrainian citizens are subjected. Reading the testimony of defendants in courtrooms is often unbearable - but we cannot turn away from this evidence. We do everything in our power to support Ukrainians in Russian prisons. Right now we are collecting 38,000 euros for humanitarian and legal aid. Thanks to your support and dissemination of information about the collection, we have already collected 9,032 euros. We thank each of the 180 people who made a donation!  We need even more people and even more support. Please spread the word about the collection on your resources. If another 2896 people donate 10 euros, we will reach the goal! You can support the collection only from foreign cards at this link: https://memopzk.org/news/srochnyj-sbor-na-pomoshh-ukrainczam-v-rossijskih-tyurmah/#leyka-pf-40010-star-form

https://t.me/pzk_memorial/6835

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26 rubles against torture The people in this photo suffered from torture. Roman Gusev was almost beaten to death by a police officer. Fyodor Valko was beaten on the back with a metal chair. Inna Marinets' grandson was insulted and beaten by the principal right in the school gym. These crimes were committed by those who are supposed to protect us! According to statistics, every tenth resident of Russia has faced torture, but most remain silent: they are in pain, scared and ashamed. So the violence goes unnoticed, and the perpetrators go unpunished. Today, on International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, we ask you to help those whose bodies and psyches have been destroyed by violence. Make a donation of any amount with the number 26 - 126, 526, 1026 rubles or another. All funds raised will go to legal, medical and psychological assistance to victims of torture.  The Committee Against Torture Foundation is the only organization in Russia that provides comprehensive support to those who have survived torture. The foundation exists only on donations. It is safe to support it: it is registered with the Ministry of Justice and is not a foreign agent. Just 26 rubles can give someone a life in which they are not afraid to leave their home.

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Russia-linked Wagner is promoting alleged atrocities in Africa on social media | AP News

Violence in the Sahel, an arid belt of land south of the Sahara Desert, has reached record levels as military governments battle extremist groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group. Turning from Western allies like the United States and France, the governments in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have instead embraced Russia and its mercenary fighters as partners in offensives.

Observers say the new approach has led to the kind of atrocities and dehumanization not seen in the region for decades. Social media offers a window into the alleged horrors that often occur in remote areas with little or no oversight from governments or outside observers.

Other posts shared by alleged Wagner-affiliated channels include images of what appear to be mutilated corpses and beheaded, castrated and dismembered bodies of people, including ones described as extremist fighters, often accompanied with mocking commentary. One post shows two white men in military attire with what appears to be a human roasting on a spit, with the caption: “The meat you hunt always tastes better,” along with an emoji of a Russian flag.

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They burned “Glory to Russia” into my body. Ukrainian POW’s Story of Sur...

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if your child was STOLEN FROM YOU, moved to Russia & educated to FORGET YOU, their friends, their language, their homeland & their values & TRAINED TO KILL YOU, what would you do? how would you feel?

‘Basically impossible to get them back’: Russia’s mass abduction of Ukrainian children is a war crime, say experts

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A Ukrainian former prisoner of war greets a soldier he fought with who was just released from russian captivity

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1933: American communists attack a group of Ukrainians in Chicago who were demonstrating to raise awareness of Stalin’s genocide of the people of Ukraine. Between 1932 and 1933 millions of people had their food and crops confiscated by the Soviet authorities and were deliberately starved to death.

Unlike the Holocaust, the genocide in Ukraine received very limited coverage because prominent Western journalists identified as communists and refused to report on it.

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Rossinskaya is the founder of the women's volunteer movement "Army of Beauties". She helped Ukrainian refugees evacuate from the war zone and delivered humanitarian aid to the occupied territories. She was arrested in February last year. At that time, she was charged with "public calls for activities directed against state security" (Part 2 of Article 280.4 of the Criminal Code). Then, assistance to terrorist activity was added to Geisler's charges. In January 2025, the article on "high treason" was added.