Hundreds of people have been detained in the Russian-separatist controlled portions of eastern Ukraine where they have been subjected to various human rights abuses including torture, sexual violence and mock executions, according to reports from the United Nations and other Human Rights groups.As a Russian invasion into eastern Ukraine appears imminent, per U.S. officials, many wonder how prisoners suffering in appalling conditions in the regions occupied by the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic will fare in the coming weeks and months.Oleksandra Matviichuk, the head of the Center for Civil Liberties, a Kyiv-based human rights organization, told The Sunday Times that Ukrainian officials estimate some 300 people are being held in the occupied territories, but many more prisoners are feared.
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