Almost half of Ukrainian detainees held in camps in Kherson have been subjected to torture and sexual violence, according to new research by an international human rights law firm.Analysis of cases across more than 35 identified detention centres revealed suffocation, waterboarding, electrocution, beatings and threats of rape to be widespread techniques imposed by Russian guards in the occupied region.Global Rights Compliance's Mobile Justice Team reviewed the stories of 320 people held in Kherson with Ukraine's Office of the Prosecutor General (OPG), with 43% reporting experiences of torture from their time detained.
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