A freelance employee of Radio Freedom, Vladyslav Yosypenko, who was detained by the Russian security forces on March 10, wrote a letter from the pre-trial detention center. The political prisoner spoke in detail about the torture he had to endure. The text of the letter was published by the Crimea.Realities media agency.
“If the answer to any of the questions didn’t suit them, they put on wires again and started up the current. At a a certain moment I got used to it, after that they increased the strength of the current, and the pain became unbearable again”,- wrote Yosypenko.
The man added that his tongue cracked and began to bleed due to electric shocks, or maybe due to the fact that he bit it hard while screaming. Moreover, the political prisoner was offered to choose the method of torture himself: current or push-ups. But in spite of everything, they tied him to a chair with duct tape and continued to torture him with electric shocks.
“During one of the strong electric shocks from pain, I jumped up, tore apart the tape holding me, and tore off the black mask from my face, I saw that I was in a basement without windows. There were five FSB men in balaclavas. And they tortured me with a device similar to military field phone. I was knocked down and again fixed on a chair with duct tape, the interrogation continued. After a while a woman (apparently also an FSB officer) came down to the basement and, putting sensors on my fingers, began to check me with a lie detector. The same questions. After the polygraph in the basement, I signed some papers, said on camera that I was a so-called spy and that I was carrying out assignments from the SSU”,- Yosypenko said.
We remind that on March 10, 2021, in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation detained a citizen of Ukraine Vladyslav Yosypenko for gathering information in the interests of the special services of Ukraine. The man was taken into custody until May 11. The political prisoner was tortured with electricity for two days. Thus, the first confessions were obtained from him.