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"The director of Russia’s notorious Taganrog prison, where officials are
accused of overseeing the systematic torture and starvation of hundreds of
Ukrainian detainees, has been notified by authorities in Kyiv that he is
suspected of having committed a war crime.
Ukraine’s national police service and its chief war crimes prosecutor announced
on Thursday that Aleksandr Shtoda, head of the Sizo 2 pre-trial detention
centre in Taganrog, had been formally placed under investigation.
Shtoda was identified by the Viktoriia Project, an investigation by the
Guardian and other reporting partners into the death in Russian captivity of
the journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna, who was seized while working undercover in
the occupied territories and transferred to Taganrog, where she spent nearly
nine months.
She was last seen alive on 8 September 2024, and her body was repatriated
earlier this year. Ukrainian investigators are still working to identify
exactly where and how she died, although her remains showed numerous signs of
torture. The announcement comes before Roshchyna’s funeral in Kyiv on Friday,
and follows a decision by the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to
posthumously award her the Order of Freedom."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
