The 26-year-old woman was brought to a police station in the central Ukrainian town of Kaharlyk, where officers told her she would be questioned as a witness to an alleged theft. But according to the State Bureau of Investigation, two policemen covered her face with a gas mask and handcuffed her, fired a gun over her head and then raped her several times on the night of May 23.
RFE/RL: Calls for dismissal of Ukraine’s powerful interior minister grow louder
Activists wear a face masks that read "(Interior Minister Arsen) Avakov is the devil" during the rally against the corruption in the health ministry in front of the presidential office in Kyiv on May 29, 2020.
