Overview

• Investigators describe use of a Soviet TA-57 field telephone to deliver roughly 80-volt shocks to prisoners’ genitals, feet, ears and fingers.
• The report cites 10 documented cases from Russian-occupied areas that include threats and attempts to rape and forced witnessing of sexual violence.
• UN special rapporteur Dr. Alice Jill Edwards says the abuse is widespread and systematic and amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
• Edwards assigns responsibility to Russian state leadership and says she has written to Moscow requesting an official reply to the allegations.
• Separately, Russia has enacted a law denouncing the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture as Ukraine continues to log hundreds of conflict-related sexual-violence cases.