Rights groups decry abduction and torture in eastern Ukraine [View all]

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Source: The Irish Times

The Ukrainian security services and Moscow-backed separatists in the east of the country are guilty of illegal detention, secret imprisonment and torture of civilians, according to two major international rights groups.

Ukraine’s pro-western authorities have repeatedly denied such practices, but in May a United Nations panel cut short a visit to the country, saying it had been denied access to places of suspected secret detention and torture
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The UN team’s suspicions appear to be confirmed in a report that Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch released on Thursday, which depicts a hidden, dirty war raging in and around separatist-held areas of eastern Ukraine.

Both government and separatist forces “have held civilians in prolonged, arbitrary detention, without any contact with the outside world, including with their lawyers or families”, the report reads.

Read more: http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/rights-groups-decry-abduction-and-torture-in-eastern-ukraine-1.2729799

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"The report alleges that Ukraine’s security service, known as the SBU, is operating secret and illegal detention facilities in several locations in eastern Ukraine, near a conflict zone where almost 10,000 people have died in more than two years of fighting."

Again, that's Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch saying this.

It's refreshing to see an even handed appraisal of the situation in eastern Ukraine, but will any other news source carry this story? I'll keep looking... nope, no major media so far.