In the temporarily occupied Kherson, invaders killed a prisoner in a pre-trial detention center. On May 11, they entered the facility, pelted stun grenades at the cameras and opened fire from machine guns.
One prisoner was killed for expressing outrage, Human Rights Commissioner Liudmyla Denisova said on Facebook.
The pre-trial detention center is controlled by collaborator Yevhen Sobolev, who has agreed to "head" the Kherson penitentiary system.
"The head of the institution was taken away in an unknown direction. Employees of the institution refused to work for the occupying power and wrote reports on dismissal. Communication with the institution was lost," Denisova said.
She stressed that russia's actions are a war crime under Article 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Denisova appealed to the UN Commission of Inquiry into human rights violations during the military invasion of Ukraine to take into account these facts of crimes and human rights violations by russians in Ukraine.