Ukrainians, whom Russia kidnaps in the temporarily occupied territories of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, are sent by the occupiers, including to a pre-trial detention center in Simferopol. This was confirmed by the Crimean Human Rights Group.

The head of the group, Olga Skrypnyk, notes that now the invaders are using the peninsula not only as a military base, but also as a place to keep kidnapped Ukrainians..

“In March, we recorded the first reports that people from the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions were being held in SIZO No. 1 in Simferopol, and later the FSB of the Russian Federation opened a new pre-trial detention center specifically for abducted people,” Skrypnyk notes.. - According to our data, this pre-trial detention center No. 2 is designed for 458 places.. At the end of 2022, more than 110 people were kept in this isolation ward, most of whom were civilian residents of the territories of Ukraine occupied after February 24, 2022..

Among the detainees are social activists, volunteers and representatives of local authorities.. According to Skrypnik, they are being tortured - first by the Russian military, who kidnap them, and then by representatives of the FSB of the Russian Federation in Crimea. Moreover, our citizens are not provided with medical assistance, and they are also not allowed to receive packages from relatives..

The occupying authorities have not yet opened criminal proceedings against some of them.. That is, the Russians still have not recognized that the abducted people are in a pre-trial detention center.

After being in isolation, they can be transported to Russia.

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