UN
subcommittee’s work in Ukraine disrupted by SBU to hide tortures of prisoners
Friday,
May 27, 2016 - 08:59
The SBU
intentionally didn’t let in representatives of of the UN subcommittee on
prevention of tortures in prisons of Donbass in order to hide humiliations of
prisoners. Such an opinion was stated by the Commissioner for Human Rights in
the Republic Darya Morozova.
‘Ukraine
denied the Subcommittee of the UN access to the places where according to my
data the security service of Ukraine had deprived people of freedom and applies
tortures. The SBU interfered the work of the subcommittee, having consciously
violated the international convention against tortures,’ claimed Morozova.
The UN
subcommittee on prevention of tortures got to work in Ukraine on May 18,
however already on the 25th, according to the Ukrainian mass media, the visit
was ceased as the SBU denied the mission access to places of detention in
Kramatorsk and Mariupol
‘Tortures
or torment methods are applied to our citizens and people empathizing with the
Republic as a common practice,’ pointed out the Ombudsman.
Morozova
reminded that the question of providing the admission of the international
organizations to places of detention, including illegal ones, was risen at a
meeting in Minsk on May 18. Then representatives of Ukraine spoke with
confidence about lack of places of illegal keeping of people.
DONi
News Agency
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