Exchange in the Donbas, former prisoners talked about the torture in the SBU

Among the participants in the exchange of prisoners in the Donbass was four of Shakhtar who over the years in jail Mariupol managed to achieve from the Ukrainian authorities of criminal cases on the facts of application of torture by the security service and of the battalion “Azov” (banned in Russia), but no movement in the court in these cases is no.

according to RIA Novosti, about the victims and their lawyer informed the public.

we are Talking about Vyacheslav Biryukov, Alexander Salenikovich, Viktor Skripnik and Eugene Druzhinin, who were detained by Ukrainian security forces in August 2014. According to Kiev, all four were part of a group of Oleg’s Recent Callsign “mongoose” and participated in armed clashes in Mariupol may 9, 2014.

But in five years, Ukraine has failed to prove them guilty, despite the torture.

According to Biryukov, he was repeatedly beaten, including with a rifle butt in the face, poked a knife at his feet, and also on a special hook hung from the ceiling and choked. He stressed that the executions took place in Mariupol in the building of the SBU, which periodically raided the militants “Azov” – to make fun of the prisoners.

Stalnikowicz passed a dreadful underground prison at the airport of Mariupol, in which, as he put it, “there are a lot of people muzzled”.

All four were able to achieve excitation of Affairs on the facts of torture against them, but before the court has not yet reached.

Earlier it was reported that, on 29 December, more than 100 people returned from Ukrainian prisons as a result of the exchange of detainees between Kiev on one side and Donetsk and Lugansk on the other.