The head of the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, Matida Boujner, said that the organization’s teams have conducted the past months with 159 prisoners who were detained by the Russian Federation and 175 prisoners of war who were in Ukraine.
Boujner added – at a press conference today, Tuesday, via video – that Ukraine granted United Nations teams a secret reach of the prisoners of war in the places of detention while the Russian Federation did not give such arrival, and interviews were conducted with the Ukrainian prisoners when they were released.
She explained that the information reached by the United Nations mission from these interviews, as well as with witnesses and relatives of military individuals and the application of the UN -Nations Human Rights Office methodology, revealed that the Ukrainian prisoners, some of them, were beaten or looted their personal property.
She added that the Ukrainian prisoners moved, like the prisoners of war, to detainees in a way that raises anxiety and often transported with overcrowded trucks or buses, and sometimes they lacking water or toilets for more than a day, as their hands were restricted and their eyes were tightly covered, which left injuries in their clinics and faces.
She pointed out that the majority of those who were met confirmed that they were subjected to torture and ill -treatment during their arrest . ..
noting that the United Nations teams conducted interviews with 20 prisoners of war after their release from the punitive colony near Olinifka and other facilities in Donetsk and in the Russian Federation, saying: “These are these The prisoners were not subjected to physical violence, but they described that they were subjected to psychological torture and beating during interrogation.
As for the prisoners of war detained by the Ukrainian government, she made it clear that the United Nations received reliable allegations about executions of brief measures of people who are unable to fight and several cases of torture and ill -treatment, and the organization also documented cases of torture and bad treatment when people were arrested or interrogated for the first time or transferred to temporary camps The places of arrest in addition to the prisoners ’exposure in several cases of stabbing or shocking electric shocks by Ukrainian law enforcement officers or military personnel guarding them.
She noted that the organization has documented cases of abuse of Russian war prisoners in a punitive colony in the “Dnipropterska” region and in many pre -trial facilities, expressing its concern that Ukraine continues to prosecute the members of the armed groups of Russia and they are Ukrainian citizens because of their membership in those groups.
She stressed the basic commitment to the state in treating all prisoners of war under its authority in a humanitarian manner at all times from the moment of their arrest until their release and their return to their homelands.
She pointed out that both Ukraine and the Russian Federation are parties in the third Geneva Convention that define the requirements related to the treatment of prisoners of war, calling on the Russian Federation to allow – on a regular basis – with full and secret arrival and without obstacles to the war prisoners, especially in their places of arrest quickly..
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