Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova: іn Kakhovka, russians set up a torture chamber in a police station, where they beat and torture hostages with electric shocks. Russian soldiers are detaining on the streets of the city not only activists or members of the ATO / OOS, but also men who have nothing to do with military service and did not go to rallies against the occupation.
For this purpose, a formal excuse is used – “violation of law and order” or “violation of curfew”. There is a constant queue of relatives of detained men near the police station, who are trying to find out about their fate or hand over food and basic necessities.
According to witnesses, there are more than 10 civilians in the Kakhovka police station, some of whom have been detained for several weeks. Men are tortured with electric shocks and beaten.
The russian military is the most cruel to those who are related to the security forces – territorial defense fighters and former members of the ATO / OOS.
Such actions by Russia are a war crime and a crime against humanity under Articles 7 and 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and a direct violation of Articles 3 and 34 of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, Articles 9 and 21 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
