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Jailed Crimean Journalist Tells Court He Was Tortured, Coerced To Confess On Russian TV April 06, 2021 13:17 GMT Share share SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine An RFE/RL freelance correspondent arrested in Ukraine s Russia-annexed Crimea has told a court he was tortured with electric shocks, beaten, and threatened with being killed unless he confessed to spying on behalf of Ukraine. Vladyslav Yesypenko s lawyer Aleksei Ladin said on April 6 that his client testified during a closed hearing in court that the torture lasted two days after his arrest in March on what both men say are false charges. [Yesypenko] told the court that he was tortured in a basement, most likely somewhere in the area of Balaklava, from the moment of his detention until his transfer to the detention center in Simferopol, Ladin said after the hearing.

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