UN report reveals prisoners' abuse in eastern Ukraine

Driving the news: Between 7,900 and 8,700 conflict-related detentions took place from April 14, 2014 through April 30 of this year. That includes 3,600 to 4,000 by the government side and 4,300 to 4,700 by separatists, OHCHR estimates.

• Both sides used secret detention facilities not subject to prosecutorial oversight, according to AP.

What they're saying: "Seven years since the outbreak of the conflict, it is unacceptable that such egregious human rights violation remain largely unaddressed," Matilda Bogner, head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine said, per AP.

• "The prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment is absolute. Torture can never be justified," Bogner said.
• In both the government-controlled and separatist-held territories, “torture and ill-treatment, including conflict-related sexual violence, were used to extract confessions or information, or to otherwise force detainees to cooperate, as well as for punitive purposes, to humiliate and intimidate, and to extort money and property,” the OHCHR said.

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