MOSCOW (Sputnik) – According to UN assistant secretary-general for human rights Ivan Simonovic, Kiev’s "disregard for human rights" has become systemic and needs to urgently addressed.
SBU has been detaining and torturing suspected opponents of the Kiev regime, those who sympathize with the self-proclaimed people’s republics of Donetsk and Luhansk (DPR and LPR) in Ukraine’s southeast.
A delegation of the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) visited Ukraine in May to inspect the country’s detention sites.
Kiev launched a special military operation in Ukraine’s southeast in April 2014, after local residents refused to recognize the new Ukrainian authorities, which came to power as a result of a coup.
After independence referendums held in May 2014, the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics (DPR and LPR) were established.
In February 2015, a peace agreement was signed between Ukraine’s conflicting sides in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, however sporadic shelling has continued in Ukraine despite the deal.
