A/HRC/45/CRP.9 15. In April 2019, the victim was transferred to a penal colony, from which she was released on 29 December 2019 as part of the simultaneous release. Donetsk 16. On 11 June 2016, a group of ‘patrol police officers’ of the self-proclaimed ‘Donetsk people’s republic’ approached a man on the street in Horlivka and took him for “a check” to the ‘department of interior’. Once there, several unidentified ‘operative officers’ handcuffed the man and pinned him on the floor under a chair. They began to torture him to make him “confess”, asking what illicit activities he was carrying out and for whom. The men put a gas mask on his face to suffocate him, and afterwards slapped his face while interrogating him. They continued to torture him intermittently until noon the following day, when they put a bag over his head and drove him to the ‘Izoliatsiia’ detention facility. 17. In ‘Izoliatsiia’, several men in balaclavas and camouflage uniforms brought him to a basement room and tied him to a table. They attached wires from a military field telephone to his limbs and administered electric shocks, ordering him to “confess” while gradually increasing the intensity of electricity. The perpetrators spilled water on him “for better conductivity” and punched him. At some point, his torturers escalated to an “enhanced method”; they stripped him, attached one electrode to his genitals and a second to a metal tube, which they pushed into his anus, and continued to shock him. The victim described the pain as unbearable, as if his pelvic area was tearing apart. In total, he was tortured for three hours, during which he fainted several times and vomited blood. He agreed to admit everything they instructed. 18. The victim was detained in ‘Izoliatsiia’ for two years, which was ordered by a ‘prosecutor’, initially as ‘administrative arrest’, and never reviewed by a ‘judge’. During this entire time, the guards and some fellow detainees colluding with them beat, intimidated and ill-treated him. 19. In February 2017, an ‘investigator’ from the ‘ministry of state security’ interrogated the victim several times. During these interrogations, the ‘investigator’ did not question the victim but instead wrote down criminal activities which the man was accused of, and asked him to remember them all. When the victim met with a private lawyer contacted by his family, he complained about the torture, but the lawyer ignored it. The victim believes the lawyer was a part of the ‘prosecutorial’ system. She left the victim alone during several interrogations and did not attempt to defend him in ‘court’. 20. In the summer of 2017, the victim’s case was submitted to the ‘military tribunal’, which tried him in closed hearings. The man described the ‘trial’ as “a show” – the defence lawyer did nothing and the ‘judge’ asked him not to object to the ‘prosecutor’s’ statements, but rather to repeat what he had told the ‘investigator’. On 16 December 2017, the ‘court’ found the defendant guilty of espionage, an attempted terrorist act and illegal possession of explosives, and sentenced him to 22 years in prison and a 100,000 RUB (approximately 1,500 USD) fine. The ‘judge’ advised him not to appeal and to wait to be ‘exchanged’. 21. On 29 December 2019, the victim was released from a penal colony as part of the simultaneous release. Arrest and Detention of Oleh Sentsov by the Russian Federation 22. Oleh Sentsov, a filmmaker and a resident of Crimea with pro-Ukrainian views, was apprehended by the Russian FSB in Simferopol on 10 May 2014. The FSB officers physically attacked him near his home, beat him, and drove him from the scene without offering any explanation for his arrest. The perpetrators did not disclose to Mr. Sentsov where they were taking him or identify themselves as law enforcement officers. Upon arrival at the FSB building, the victim was tortured for about three hours while being pressured to incriminate himself and others in the coordination of alleged terrorist acts in Crimea. FSB officers beat Mr. Sentsov with their fists and a wooden bat, and suffocated him with a plastic bag until he fainted. He was also subjected to sexual violence; FSB officers stripped him and threatened to rape him with a bat. Mr. Sentsov was held in the FSB office overnight in unofficial detention and was only formally arrested the following day. 41