International Criminal Court team shown Russian torture chambers in Kharkiv Oblast – photos
Brenda J. Hollis, Head of Investigations into International Crimes Committed in Ukraine at the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), along with her team and members from the Ukrainian Prosecutor's Office, has inspected the torture chambers set up by the Russian military during the occupation of Kharkiv Oblast.
Brenda J. Hollis, Head of Investigations into International Crimes Committed in Ukraine at the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), along with her team and members from the Ukrainian Prosecutor’s Office, has inspected the torture chambers set up by the Russian military during the occupation of Kharkiv Oblast.
Source: press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO)
Details: ICC prosecutors are gathering and analysing evidence of torture of civilians in Kharkiv Oblast as part of a broader investigation into crimes committed in Ukraine. The Prosecutor General’s Office emphasises the importance of pursuing legal and evidence-based justice for crimes perpetrated in Ukraine.
Prosecutors and other law enforcement officers uncovered 25 torture chambers in Kharkiv Oblast. The evidence gathered indicates that the detainees were subjected to torture, physical, psychological, and sexual abuse. People were hardly fed and given only technical water to drink. They chiselled their teeth, bound their wrists, and they used a crane with a metal hook to lift people's bodies into the air. They also pulled out their nails, used electric shocks via wires linked to different parts of the body, and beat them with rubber sticks.
Quote from PGO representative Yurii Belousov: "Our fruitful cooperation with the ICC continues. The main focus should be on criminals at all levels against whom we have enough evidence to bring them to justice, regardless of their rank or position. We do our best to guarantee that criminals are held accountable under the law. All of them. And they surely will be. It's just a matter of time."
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