In the city of Kakhovka in Kherson region, the perpetrators tortured people in the premises of the police by beating and electrocuting them.
This was reported by Kherson region Lyudmyla Denisova, the representative of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for Human Rights.
"In the streets of the city, Russian soldiers detain not only activists or participants of the ATO/OSS o, but also men who have no relation to military service and have not participated in rallies against the occupation", reads the statement.
A formal reason - "violation of law and order" or "violation of the curfew" - is used for detention.
"The police station is constantly surrounded by the relatives of the detained men, who are trying to find out about their fate or hand over food and necessities", reads the statement.
According to witnesses, over 10 civilians are in the premises of the Kakhovka police, some of them have been staying there for several years. The men are being electrocuted with tasers and beaten.
The most frequent targeting by the Russian troops are those who are related to the security forces - the territorial defense fighters and former ATO/DF participants.
"Such actions by the Russian Federation constitute a war crime and a crime against humanity under Articles 7 and 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and a direct violation of Articles 3 and 34 of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, Articles 9 and 21 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights," Denisova said.
She urged the UN Commission of inquiry to take into account these facts of war crimes and human rights violations.
We would like to remind you that at the beginning of April, Vitaliy Nemerets, the mayor of the temporary occupied Kakhovka (Kherson region), announced that he had left the city due to threats to him and his family. Earlier he refused to cooperate with the occupiers.