A lawsuit was filed in Argentina due to the torture of a Ukrainian in Russian-occupied territory.
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Anna Yudkovskaya, a former ECHR judge from Ukraine, wrote about this on her Facebook page.
The lawsuit was filed through The Reckoning Project, a war crimes documentation project. The name of the Ukrainian citizen is not disclosed for security reasons.
He accused specific individuals, indicated their names and military ranks, and described the torture in detail, on 70 pages. He was tortured for 20 days, after which he was fired and he was able to escape to the unoccupied part of Ukraine. He also gave evidence from other prisoners held in the same facility. The family remained in the occupied territory, so the claim is anonymous for their safety.
Now the floor is up to the Federal Court of Buenos Aires. Argentina has every opportunity to become a leader in universal jurisdiction cases. The country’s constitution, on the basis of universal jurisdiction, allows courts to try international crimes, including crimes against humanity and war crimes, regardless of where they took place.
In the statement, the man accuses one person, two identified by call signs or military insignia, and others who have not been named, of using electric shocks and false imprisonment as forms of torture in mid-to-late 2022, Reuters writes.
I was detained at work. Then they tortured me. They used electric shocks,” he said in an interview with the publication in an apartment in Buenos Aires before filing his application. It was incredibly painful, so I lost consciousness. I managed to survive. Many people are still there.
The Russian Ministry of Defense declined to comment to the agency. In general, Moscow denies committing war crimes in Ukraine and has rejected previous International Criminal Court arrest warrants for war crimes under the framework.
Source: Racurs
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