Moscow sent a file with details of ten cases of torture of Ukrainian civilians.
Experts authorized by the UN Council for Human Rights claim that Russia is using sexual torture against civilians – women and men – as part of the intentional and systematic intimidation in occupied areas of Ukraine. Moscow sent a file with details of ten cases of torture of Ukrainian civilians during the Russian occupation, TASR writes according to the AFP report.
All ten civilians were exhibited by the Russians with “repeated electric shocks”, even in the genitalia, beat and dug into them, said experts. The Russians also pledged their eyes on the prisoners and exhibited their situations when they were supposed to think they were drowning or threatening to execute.
Frighteous accusations of the UN
“These individual accusations capturing the experience of four women and six men are really scary,” said UN Special Rapporteur for torture Alice Jill Edwards. She warned, however, that it was just a “small cut of a wider, well -documented formula” and that in these cases there were attacks that were of significantly sexual character and included rape or threats by rape.
“It is becoming increasingly clear that the deliberate and systematic policy of torture of the Russian Federation in Ukraine includes sexual torture and other manifestations of sexual cruelty, even against the civilian population,” the newsletter said. According to her, Russia uses “torture to intimidate, evoke fear and control civilians in the occupied territory of Ukraine”.
Call for explanation
They called on the Russian government to explain the concrete allegations of the file and presented the measures it had taken to prevent sexual torture by soldiers. At the same time, they called for the immediate release of one of the victims, which they believe is still detained in Russia.
AFP notes in the report that these experts who work for the UN Council for Human Rights do not speak in its behalf.
