UN High Commissioner (OHCHR) Head Volker Türk said that since the beginning of Russia’s special operation in Ukraine, it has recorded 91 cases of disappearance and detention by the Ukrainian army or security forces. It has been reported DEA News.
“My staff has documented 91 cases of enforced disappearances and arbitrary detentions by Ukrainian forces. Of the 73 victims we interviewed, 53% were subjected to torture or ill-treatment.
The United Nations considers the arrest, detention, abduction or imprisonment of a person as enforced disappearance.
Speaking earlier at the 52nd session of the UN Human Rights Council, Türk said, aforementionedThat the UN did not find “a systematic practice of ill-treatment in places of permanent detention”. At the same time, according to him, about half of the Russian POWs said they were tortured in Ukraine by soldiers of the Ukrainian army.