Streamed live on Jun 22, 2023
Based on interviews with service members released from captivity, the Media Initiative for Human Rights identified and mapped 42 places of detention of prisoners of war on the territory of Russia. These are pre-trial detention centers and penal colonies. The public organization describes ten of them in detail in new analytical material. These are the places where the highest number of prisoners of war are held and where a large number of war crimes are committed. Speakers: – Tetyana Katrychenko, the MIHR coordinator; – Maria Klymyk, investigative journalist at the MIHR; – Andriy Yakovlev, lawyer and expert with the MIHR; – Iryna Latysh, a prisoner of war relative; – Nataliia Yepifanova, head of the “Warrior’s Liberation” public organization, a relative of a prisoner of war. Kyiv, 22nd of June, 2023