{"id":3070,"date":"2014-12-16T06:50:54","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T11:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3070"},"modified":"2014-12-16T06:50:54","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T11:50:54","slug":"un-rights-watchdog-accuses-kiev-forces-of-torture-inhumane-treatment-of-civilians-rt-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3070","title":{"rendered":"UN rights watchdog accuses Kiev forces of torture, inhumane treatment of civilians \u2014 RT News"},"content":{"rendered":"

UN rights watchdog accuses Kiev forces of torture, inhumane treatment of civilians \u2014 RT News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kiev-controlled volunteer battalions and the Ukrainian Security Service are involved in an increasing number of human rights violations including torture and forced disappearances of those suspected of \u201cseparatism,\u201d according to a UN OHCHR report.<\/p>\n

The report by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights says that Kiev’s actions in eastern Ukraine to \u201crestore order\u201d have led to\u00a0\u201carbitrary detentions, torture, and enforced disappearances of people suspected of \u2018separatism and terrorism\u2019. Most of such human rights violations appear to have been perpetrated by certain voluntary battalions or by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).\u201d<\/em><\/span>
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The eighth OHCHR\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0on the human rights situation in Ukraine released on Monday added that the procedural rights of people have not always been observed, with reports of ill-treatment and reprisals upon release.<\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/a>…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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UN rights watchdog accuses Kiev forces of torture, inhumane treatment of civilians \u2014 RT News. Kiev-controlled volunteer battalions and the Ukrainian Security Service are involved in an increasing number of human rights violations including torture and forced disappearances of those suspected of \u201cseparatism,\u201d according to a UN OHCHR report. The report by the UN High […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1795,1610,1794,821,822],"class_list":["post-3070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-human-rights","tag-kiev","tag-torture","tag-ukraine","tag-un"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3071,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070\/revisions\/3071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}