Over the past week, Russian forces have been forcibly taken over 3,000 Ukrainians, including more than 300 children, to a filtration camp in the village of Bezymenne.
After being detained and subjected to interrogations, torture, threats and intimidation, many Ukrainians are then forcibly relocated to depressed regions of Russia.
All those who do not pass ‘filtration’ operations are considered by the occupants to be “unsafe for the Russian regime”. They are arrested and sent to former correctional facility No. 52 in Olenivka, Donetsk region, or to the summary detention facility ‘Isolatsia’ in Donetsk.
Kidnapping and torturing prisoners is an act of terrorism in accordance with the Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism and a war crime in line with Article 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
FIDU joins the appeal launched by the UA Ombudsman, Lyudmyla Denisova, and calls on the UN commission to take into account these crimes during the investigations of gross violations of human rights during the invasion of Ukraine.