Russian occupiers set up "prison" in Kupiansk with triple overcrowding – Security Service of Ukraine
KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO – FRIDAY, 16 SEPTEMBER 2022, 19:54
In the liberated city of Kupiansk in Kharkiv Oblast, an illegal "prison" set up by the Russian occupiers has been discovered; While the cells there were designed for 140 people, 400 were held at the same time.
Source: Security Service of Ukraine (SSU)
Details: An illegal "prison" was set up in the district police department of Kupiansk, where the "command centre" of the occupying administration was located during the Russian invasion.
It was established that the Russians kept and tortured local residents who refused to cooperate with them in these premises.
The SSU notes that the "prison" was triple-overcrowded: the occupiers simultaneously held more than 400 in cells designed for 140 people. Illegally imprisoned citizens were forced to sleep standing up.
According to international conventions, such behaviour is recognised as torture and is a cruel, inhumane type of treatment and punishment, the SSU explained.
Investigators of the SSU in Kharkiv Oblast are documenting atrocities and other war crimes committed by the Russian occupying forces against the civilian population as part of criminal proceedings under Art. 438 of the Criminal Code (violation of the laws and customs of war).
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