UKRAINSK - Secretly detained by Ukrainian authorities for almost 600 days, Mykola Vakaruk suffered repeated beatings, battled the freezing cold and lost a kidney in an ordeal he described as pure hell.
Agence France-Presse: Donetsk local resident suffered beatings and lost a kidney in Ukraine’s ‘secret prisons’
Mykola Vakaruk shows a scar on his body during in a small town in the Donetsk region, on August 30, 2016.Suffering repeated beatings, freezing cold and losing a kidney while detained for almost 600 days by Kiev's forces, Mykola Vakaruk says he has survived pure hell in Ukranian detention. The 34-year-old was released in late July following pressure from human rights monitors from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, who claimed the existence of "secret prisons" run by the pro-Western former republic's security service.(Alexey Filippov/ AFP)
