Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova: the shocking facts of torture by the occupiers not only of Ukrainians but also of citizens of other countries continue to come from Mariupol.
Hussein Abdullayev, a third-year student at Mariupol State University, was taken prisoner by the occupiers on March 17 while trying to leave the city and was brutally tortured by the occupiers for almost a month.
Hussein was detained by the russian military at a checkpoint near Berdyansk. The man was stripped to his underwear, looking for a tattoo, after which he was handcuffed and taken to a pre-trial detention center.
Abdullayev repeatedly stressed that he was Azerbaijani and showed documents, but the occupiers used electric shock to try to get him to admit that he was a soldier of the Azov Battalion.
Electric torture was suspended only 5-6 days before an agreement was reached to release him, but severe beatings continued.
Abdullayev talks about screams he heard from other chambers where people were tortured, and the sound of gunshots.
Terror, cruel and degrading treatment of civilians in the occupied territories is a war crime under the Statute of the International Military Tribunal and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and a violation of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.
