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Associated Press: Human rights activists condemn secret detentions in Ukraine

By Associated Press.

Published Aug. 29, 2016 at 3:40 pm

(Archive photo) Ukrainian soldiers detain a man suspected of spying for Russian-backed militants at a checkpoint near Debaltseve in Donetsk Oblast on Aug. 16, 2014.

Photo by (AFP)

MOSCOW - International rights group are raising the alarm about secret detentions in Ukraine.

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch published a report this summer detailing the use of torture and secret detentions by both the Ukrainian government and the Russia-backed separatist rebels it is fighting in the country’s east.