Occupiers are holding 600 people in torture chambers in the Kherson region: torture and inhumane conditions

TUESDAY, 7 JUNE 2022, 15:44

In the occupied Kherson Oblast, Russian invaders are holding about 600 people in torture chambers, as well as abducting residents and taking them to Crimea, which has been annexed by Russia.

Source: Tamila Tasheva, Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, reporting to Ukrinform

Quote from Tasheva: "According to the information available to us, there are about 600 people in Kherson Oblast who are confined to basements, in specially equipped rooms, in torture chambers."

Details: According to Tasheva, about 300 people are "in basements" in occupied Kherson, the rest are in other settlements of the region. People are being detained, in particular, in the building of the Kherson Oblast State Administration, in a pre-trial detention centre and in Vocational School No. 17 in Henichesk.

The occupiers are keeping the abducted residents of the region in inhumane conditions and are torturing them.

Some of the abducted residents are being taken by Russians to the Crimea, which has been annexed by Russia. There, they are kept in the Simferopol pre-trial detention centre in a separate block and in Sevastopol. Activists, journalists, and prisoners-of -war are among those taken hostage by the occupiers.

Previously: 

The so-called "authorities" of collaborators in the Kherson region, now appointed by the Russian military, expressed hope that a "referendum" on joining Russia would be held in the occupied region, although it was previously stated otherwise.

Background:

The Security service of Ukraine has obtained information that Russian occupiers were given permission to open fire on civilians they deem suspicious at checkpoints in Kherson Oblast.