Ukrainian civilians abducted, tortured in Russian prisons

Thousands of Ukrainian civilians remain imprisoned in Russia for years, with families enduring a decade-long fight for their release amid allegations of systematic abuse. | Contesto: cronaca

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• Ukrainian civilians abducted, tortured in Russian prisons

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For over a decade, thousands of Ukrainian civilians have been held in Russian prisons, a practice legal experts and human rights organizations condemn as a clear violation of international humanitarian law. These detentions, which began years before the full-scale invasion of 2022, involve individuals seized from occupied territories or within Russia itself, held without due process or access to fair trials. Their families, scattered across Ukraine and beyond, have waged a relentless, often solitary campaign for their release, navigating opaque bureaucratic systems and facing consistent official denial from Russian authorities. The scale of the issue remains deliberately obscured, with no official Russian registry of these detainees. Advocacy groups and lawyers working on individual cases estimate the number in the thousands, a figure that includes teachers, local officials, activists, journalists, and ordinary citizens. Many were taken during the initial Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the subsequent conflict in the Donbas region. Testimonies from the few who have been released, often in prisoner exchanges, describe a system designed to inflict psychological torment and extract forced confessions through prolonged isolation, sensory deprivation, and physical torture. International law, specifically the Fourth Geneva Convention, affords explicit protections to civilians in times of war and occupation, prohibiting arbitrary detention and requiring humane treatment. The systematic, long-term imprisonment of non-combatants, legal analysts argue, constitutes a war crime. "The intent appears to be twofold: to terrorize the population in occupied areas into submission and to create a pool of bargaining chips for future negotiations," explained a European diplomat familiar with the cases, speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter. This strategy has created a parallel humanitarian crisis distinct from the captivity of soldiers. For the families left behind, the ordeal is a continuous cycle of hope and despair. They spend their savings on lawyers and travel to distant detention facilities, only to be routinely turned away. They...

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