Both the Ukrainian government authorities and Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine are holding civilians in prolonged, arbitrary, and sometimes secret detention and torturing them, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said in a joint report released on July 21.
Human Rights Watch: Torture, disappearances in eastern Ukraine
(Archive photo) Leader of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic Alexander Zakharchenko (L) stands next to kneeling captive Ukrainian soldiers in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, on January 22, 2015.
