Occupying Russian forces deport almost 3,000 people from Mariupol to ‘filtration camp’, including 300 children - Denisova

Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Lyudmyla Denisova shared the news on her Telegram channel.

“During the last week occupying forces have forcefully deported almost 3,000 Ukrainians, including 300 children, to a ‘filtration camp’ in Bezimenne village. After ‘filtration’ or processing, they plan to take groups of people from Mariupol and deport them to Taganrog, and then to the deprived regions of Russia.”

At least 10% of people who did not pass ‘filtration’ are declared by the occupying forces to be “a threat to the Russian regime”. Those Ukrainians are then arrested and sent to the former correctional facility №52 in Olenivka or to the ‘Izolyatsia’ (Isolation) prison in Donetsk, where people are interrogated, tortured, threatened with the death penalty and forced to collaborate.

“Taking and torturing hostages is an act of terrorism under the Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism and is a war crime under Article 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.”

Denisova called the UN’s human rights violation investigation commission into war crimes in Ukraine to take these facts into account.