Russian Federation Discovers Secret Camps For AFU Prisoners Of War

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Russia has created a network of secret camps for Ukrainian prisoners of war, which exists separately from the official penitentiary system.

Russian publication "Agency. Novosti".

As lawyer Nikolai Polozov told the publication, human rights activists learned about the existence of secret prisons for Ukrainians only now and accidentally - from the certificates on the places of detention of AFU soldiers taken prisoner in the Kursk region and near Donetsk.

"In a number of criminal cases against prisoners of war, which we conducted in the courts, we saw certificates on where they were held," Polozov explained.

According to him, as a rule, captured Ukrainians in Russia are held in ordinary pre-trial detention centers or prisons. But now it has become known from court documents that there is also a certain "temporary detention center for persons detained for opposing the SVO."

Polozov believes that at least four or five such centers have been set up in Russia, but there may be more. Human rights activists have not been able to find any information about where such facilities might be located.

"They are not part of the Federal Penitentiary System, they are controlled, apparently, by the Defense Ministry and military police. And from there no information - we have submitted requests - categorically do not provide," - said Polozov.

It is also unknown how many Ukrainians are held in such places.

Polozov notes that in secret prisons captives are in inhumane conditions, as reported by those who have already managed to release from captivity. At the same time, in official pre-trial detention centers, where prisoners of war are placed if the Russian state decides to try them "according to the law," conditions are usually a bit better, the human rights activist says.

Polozov suggests that after the end of the war, the system of secret prisons could be scaled up to repress Russians themselves.

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