Leaders of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) will soon meet with the representatives of the Amnesty International to ask them to provide materials on tortures in Donbas, Advisor to SBU Chief Markiyan Lubkivsky has said.
“I want to once more note that the SBU isn’t only ready to conduct a proper investigation with the military prosecution agencies into each case mentioned in the report of this international organization to establish all the circumstances and find truth, but also [ready] to provide materials, particularly documented ones that prove abuse and torture of Ukrainian anti-terrorist operation soldiers by the representatives of terrorist organizations ‘Donetsk and Luhansk Peoples’ Republics’, particularly Russian citizens. These Russian citizens include the infamous ‘Tereza,'” Lubkivsky wrote on Facebook.
In addition, the SBU website reads that the special service is open to a dialogue with the international organization regarding the conditions of detainment in Ukraine.
“It’s important to say that neither SBU nor Ukraine hold any prisoners,” he said and added that SBU was detaining people suspected in the offence against foundations of the state security, terrorist actions, etc. SBU uses restriction measures on such people after a court’s decision. Such cases are always reported on at the SBU website, briefings and interviews by SBU leaders.
According to him, the SBU provides constant and unconditional access to the detainees to international organizations such as the Red Cross, OSCE, Amnesty International and others. Ukrainian human rights organizations, Verkhovna Rada Human Rights Commissioner and lawyers also have access to such detainees.
