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Mariupol mayor's aide describes prisons for those who failed russian vetting

“The prison premises are overcrowded. With a planned limit of 850 people in the colony, according to witnesses, at least 3,000 people are being held there today”.

 Mariupol mayor's aide describes prisons for those who failed russian vetting
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Adviser to the Mayor of Mariupol Petro Andryushchenko said about the filtration camps near the city, where located people who did not pass the filtration.

On his Telegram, Andryushchenko said that the “unreliable” were taken to the premises of the former G52 penal colony in the village of Olenivka, Donetsk region (the territory has been occupied since 2014) or to the Isolation prison in Donetsk.

“The colony in Olenivka is for those who do not serve in the Armed Forces, the National Guard, and other law enforcement agencies. They keep relatives, former law enforcement officers, activists, journalists, and people who simply aroused suspicion (including just having patriotic tattoos). The minimum term of imprisonment is 36 days. By the way, exactly 36 days were allotted by the occupiers for the filtration procedure, so it is “officially” not imprisonment, but filtration”, Andryushchenko said.

The adviser to the head of Mariupol noted that the prison premises were overcrowded.

According to witnesses, the planned limit of the colony is 850 people, today at least 3,000 people are detained there. Mostly from Mariupol and Mariupol district. The premises are filled with people so that they cannot lie down. They are forced to stand and squat. They give only one water bottle to dozens of people. Food is not served every day. Toilet once a day. Outdoor walks are not planned. All this is accompanied by long interrogations, torture, threats of execution, and coercion”, Andryushchenko wrote.

According to him, those who were “lucky” were released in 36 days, but were forced to sign “some papers”.

“Exactly what witnesses can not specify, but they think that it is about “cooperation”, - the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol specified.

He added that there were mass cases of disappearances after interrogations: “Witnesses say that there are “gossips” about people being transferred to another, more severe prison (possibly in Donetsk, Isolation)”.

“We can say that this in fact is a real concentration camp of the 21st century, created by russia in the heart of Europe”, - said the adviser to the head of Mariupol.

Andryushchenko called on the media to publicize the problem.

"Witnesses who volunteered to speak have already been handed over to some publications, but they refuse more than one conversation. We are ready to help or save our people," the adviser said.

It will be recalled that today the Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories Iryna Vereshchuk called on the world community to join the organization of the evacuation of wounded Ukrainian servicemen from the territory of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol.

The Azov Regiment said that the occupiers were continuing to storm the plant - the enemy did not stop trying to capture the plant with aircraft and infantry.

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