Russians Detain, Torture Journalists in Occupied Kherson: Report

The New York Sun ^ | June 8, 2022 | Anthony Grant

[SwotSonOfSitetest]

Russian forces are holding hundreds of people in “torture chambers” in occupied Kherson, a Ukrainian official has said. “According to our information, some 600 people are … being held in specially converted basements in the region of Kherson," the Ukraine presidency’s permanent representative in Crimea, Tamila Tacheva, said.

According to Ukrinform, Ms. Tacheva said that Russian invaders have confined these prisoners within “specially equipped rooms, in torture chambers,” Ukrinform reported. Most of those being held in “inhuman conditions” are “journalists and militants” who organized “pro-Ukrainian gatherings” in Kherson following its occupation by Russian forces in 2014.

[SwotSonOfSitetest]

well i'm not sure that's necessary

[KobraKai]

All journalists are drama queens.

[dainbramaged]

Smells like BS.

[Responsibility2nd]

“journalists and militants”

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A difference without a distinction.

[Sacajaweau]

Torture chambers?? Really...you mean not 5 Star Hotels??

I don't believe anything anymore.

[ought-six]

Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote about this kind of thing many years ago.

[Mariner]

“Smells like BS.”

That’s because it’s bullshit.

[Rebelbase]

No hot water, no Chardonnay, No internet or phone signal is all it takes to torture journalists.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Sounds like what the DOJ is doing to the January 6th “insurrectionists.”

[M Kehoe]

Wait till the Russians take the “journalist” to Labyanka prison in Moscow.

Might be on pay per view?

5.56mm

[Dalberg-Acton]

"All journalists are drama queens scum."

[silverleaf]

“since 2014”

Sounds like Russia is sorting out the people who directly or indirectly targeted civilians to be arrested or worse by Uke internal security and paramilitary thugs…

[silverleaf]

This too

[GrumpyOldGuy]

I seriously doubt this story.

[SoConPubbie]

Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote about this kind of thing many years ago.

Yeah, but Solzhenitsyn had a reputation of being honest.

With the constant barrage of Propaganda and Lies coming from today's media, there is no way you can believe a word of what they say unless you have incontrovertible proof.

[Vaquero]

I would not be upset if certain journalists were water boarded

[cgbg]

Proof of Russian torture during captivity would be if a journalist starting speaking the truth instead of Western plutocrat propaganda.

[Travis McGee]

Sounds like another BS story being propagated around the MSM like the false “Russian Soldiers Gang Raping Babies!” stories.

https://wentworthreport.com/2022/06/02/ukraine-fires-own-its-own-human-rights-chief-for-perpetuating-false-russian-troop-systematic-rape-stories/

Ukraine Fires Own Its Own Human Rights Chief For Perpetuating False Russian Troop ‘Systematic Rape’ Stories. By Tyler Durden.

For over the past two months, an avalanche of stories have hit Western mainstream press which purported to document instances of mass rape carried out by Russian troops against Ukrainian civilians. …

As has been the pattern in prior wars, whether in Syria or Libya, the media claims got more and more sensational and over-the-top as the conflict intensified, and as Western powers became more deeply involved, yet with no concrete or definitive proof.

But one consistent detail in the majority of the stories is that the aforementioned Ukraine human rights ombudsman, Lyudmyla Denisova, is often the central figure feeding Western correspondents the shocking rape stories.

[Wilderness Conservative]

They already wear panties on their heads so what’s left?

[FLT-bird]

So they’ve got that going for them.....