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The issue of civilian hostages abducted and held by Russia requires increased international attention and immediate and strong response,
foreign ministry spokesman Georgiy Tykhy said
Responsibility for her death lies with the Russian authorities, who detained her for daring to report the truth on the Russia-Ukraine war,
CPJ's Europe and Central Asia program coordinator said in a statementVictoria's passing is not just the loss of a remarkable woman, but of an intrepid witness to history,
the group said in a statement after her death
I have documented serious cases of torture, including mock executions, all types of beatings, electricity being applied to ears and genitals and other parts of the body, waterboarding, as well as threats and actual rapes and sexual violence,
said Alice Edwards, the UN's special rapporteur on torture told the Washington Post
There’s another room where we were hanged for 10 to 15 minutes
Speaking to ForbiddenStories, one prisoner of war detained in Taganrog saidHaemorrhages can be found in the whites of the eyes, and oxygen deprivation can be detected in the brain."
The expert continued
Even the word ‘concentration camp’ would be too mild for SIZO-2."
A former inmate seemed to disagree and saidI will never cooperate with you
Yet the heroic reporter rejected her captors, and reportedly told guardsExperts have not yet been able to determine the cause of death due to the body’s condition,
Belousov said
There were numerous signs of torture and ill-treatment on the body,
the exiled Russian news outlet IStories quoted Yuriy Belousov, head of the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office war crimes unit, as sayingHowever, this may be a way to hide traces of violence,
the source saidWe asked a girl from the cell to help her down. She helped her down. After that, a guard came and said that the journalist had not been taken to the exchange. He added: "It was her own fault".
One of the witnesses in the detention centre told journalists
I said: 'Darling, you need to eat, they promised to release you'. And she replied: 'Yes, I am eating, I swear',
he told reportersThe bodily injuries were inflicted during her lifetime. Therefore, there is a high probability that torture was applied to her [Viktoriia Roshchyna – ed.],
Bielousov saidShe could stand up, but only with me helping as she was in such a state that she could not even lift her head off the pillow. I would prop her up and she would grab the top bunk to pull herself upright,
her cellmate said
We would talk to her but she was lost in her head, eyes terrified,
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She had no life beyond her job, no friends, no partner. But also doing extraordinary work. For her it was a mission,
said Sevhil Musaieva, the editor-in-chief of Ukrainska PravdaShe arrived already pumped full of unknown drugs,
said a second detainee who encountered Roshchyna at Taganrog, who cannot be named for security reasonsIn Melitopol there is a big concentration of FSB and they have these temporary detention centres,
said a European intelligence official familiar with the situation in the occupied territoriesI was promised that I would be home in September,
she told them