Ukrainian soldiers: UN officials said Vladimir Putin's troops receive a bonus of 10 percent of their monthly salary if they seize a Ukrainian loan: Andre Alves/Anadolu Agency
Russian soldiers are receiving financial rewards for obtaining information from captured Ukrainians, a practice that encourages torture, a UN official said.
Dr. Alice Jill Edwards, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture said Vladimir Putin's troops receive a bonus of 10 percent of their monthly salary if they capture a Ukrainian. This increases to 25 per cent if they manage to obtain information or a confession, and to 50 per cent if they send a prisoner to work for the Russians.
In an exclusive interview with The Telegraph, Ms Edwards said: 'Their method to do this is torture. This happens through mistreatment of people. It is through humiliation and ridicule of people.
«This is not the act of a completely undisciplined military force, but rather targeted violence perpetrated against both civilians and prisoners of war [which amounts to] government policy.»
Ms Edwards said in the report, which she is preparing for the UN Human Rights Council, due to be presented next March, will indicate that allegations of torture by Russian security forces “were neither accidental nor accidental.”
Back from the seven-day visit to Ukraine, she said that prisoners of war told her that they were forced to vote in fictitious referendums, held at gunpoint or beaten.
“Some of them just thought it was another piece of humiliation and degradation, not realizing that in fact for those outside the detention centers there was actually this so-called referendum,” Ms. Edwards on The Telegraph's Ukraine: The Last podcast. “They just thought it was another part of the process of torture and humiliation.”
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Last September, nearly 100 percent of voters supported joining Russia in four sham referendums held in Russian-occupied territories. regions of Ukraine. Russian officials reportedly carried ballot boxes door to door to force residents to vote, threatening to kill their families if they did not comply.
Ukraine's prosecutor general's office told the UN that 90 per cent of detained people released from occupied territories «were subjected to torture or other inhuman or degrading treatment, including rape and sexual violence», Ms Edwards said.
< p>The charity An organization in one district of Kherson also conducted a study that found that 107 of 300 prisoners of war were subjected to “sexual forms of torture.”
Describing the use of torture in Russia as an “organized campaign,” Ms. Edwards said that the war «is being waged against the bodies and minds of Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war.»
She criticized the US decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine, saying the weapons are «inconsistent with obligations under the absolute prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhumane acts or degrading treatment or punishment» because they are «indiscriminate.»
She has called on the US government to change its policies, but has not yet done so. get an answer. While there is clear evidence that Russia does not respect international law, Ms Edwards said Ukraine «must respect international humanitarian law and international human rights law.»
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