More than 10,000 Mariupol residents are in "DPR" prisons - Mariupol City Council
Mariupol City Council has said that more than 10,000 civilian Mariupol residents are currently being held in prisons in "DPR" (a breakaway puppet regime on Ukrainian territory, formed on 7 April 2014 by Russia-backed gunmen - Ed).
The Mariupol City Council shares information on Telegram.
"More than 10,000 residents of Mariupol are in the so-called "prisons" of the DNR. Peaceful, civilian residents were detained by the occupiers and sent to places of deprivation of liberty," the message says .
The "DNR" has four prisons located in the Donetsk SIZO, Makiivka and two more in Olenivka. In these concentration camps, people are kept in inhuman conditions - 10 people per 2-3 meter cell. Prisoners are hardly allowed to eat or drink. Also, the press service writes that the people of Mariupol are not taken to the street, they do not have medical assistance despite constant torture and psychological pressure.
"I call on the International Red Cross and the UN to pay attention to the illegal detention of civilians in the city. To use all possible tools to obtain lists of prisoners. To ensure that they currently receive decent living conditions. And to work together on the liberation of every citizen of Mariupol," Vadym Boychenko emphasized .
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