أoperatively Ukrainian security officials notify head of illegal prison in occupied Luhansk of suspicion
أبلغ جهاز الأمنDn Ukrainian Ukrainian security officials and prosecutors a man suspected of leading an illegal prison in temporarily occupied Luhansk of suspicion of cruel treatment of civilians. The suspect is accused of organizing systematic abuse and torture, including deprivation of food, water and medical care, electric shocks and beatings. He remains in occupied territory, so investigators are continuing measures to hold him accountable.
أبرز النقاط
- The Security Service of Ukraine and the prosecutor’s office notified the suspect in absentia.
- The notification concerns Part 1 of Article 438 of Ukraine’s Criminal Code, concerning cruel treatment of civilians.
- The suspect is accused of organizing systematic abuse at the illegal prison in Luhansk.
- Detainees were held in overcrowded, unheated cells without warm clothing or blankets.
- Investigators say detainees were deprived of food, water and medical assistance.
- The suspect is accused of using electric shocks, rubber batons and beatings that caused some victims to lose consciousness.
- The investigation is conducted by the SBU’s main directorate in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts under the procedural supervision of the Luhansk regional prosecutor’s office.
لماذا يهمّ ذلك
The case concerns alleged systematic torture and deprivation in an illegal detention facility operated by occupying authorities. The facility reportedly held abducted members of the Ukrainian resistance and local residents who opposed the occupation. Because the suspect remains in temporarily occupied territory, the notification is an in-absentia legal step in an ongoing pre-trial investigation.
ماذا حدث
Ukrainian security officials and prosecutors notified a man suspected of heading an illegal prison in temporarily occupied Luhansk of suspicion of cruel treatment of civilians. The investigation was conducted by investigators from the SBU’s main directorate in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts under the procedural supervision of the Luhansk regional prosecutor’s office.
According to investigators, the suspect previously worked in the administration of a local colony and switched sides with Russian occupying authorities in 2014. Occupying authorities later appointed him to lead the so-called “Luhansk institution for the execution of punishments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of LNR,” subsequently renamed “SIZO No. 1.”
The suspect is accused of organizing systematic abuse of people detained there. Abducted participants in the Ukrainian resistance and local Luhansk residents who opposed the occupation were brought to the prison. Investigators say detainees were held in overcrowded cells without heating, warm clothing or blankets, and were deprived of food, water and medical assistance. The prison’s conditions reportedly caused exhaustion, exacerbation of chronic illnesses and infectious diseases. Detainees were tortured with electricity and struck with rubber batons, including batons of the PR-73 type; some had their bones broken and were beaten until they lost consciousness. The suspect remains in temporarily occupied territory, and law enforcement authorities are continuing measures to hold him accountable.
كيف تصفه المصادر الأوكرانية
Ukrainian coverage presents the notification as a confirmed legal accountability step within an ongoing pre-trial investigation. It emphasizes the suspect’s role in organizing a detention facility operated by occupying authorities, alleged systematic torture and deprivation of detainees, and the targeting of resistance members and local residents opposed to the occupation.
الخلفية
The facility was created by Russian occupying authorities in Luhansk as the so-called Luhansk institution for the execution of punishments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of LNR and was later renamed SIZO No. 1. The suspect had previously worked in the administration of a local colony and switched sides with Russia in 2014 before being appointed to lead the illegal prison.