“A new
video has emerged of a mysterious half-completed prison complex in
the town of Zhdanovka in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's
Republic in Ukraine's Donetsk region. Built on a grant from the
European Union's ENPI program, construction halted when the Ukraine's
civil war began and DPR militias took control of the area. Local
residents believe that the facility was built to house dissidents in
case of internal conflict, although documents suggest that the
construction was part of a 2011, 30 million euro ($42 million in
2011) project for housing asylum seekers deported from EU countries.”
“The
system allows European Union countries to reject asylum seekers by
sending them to Ukraine, where the legal qualifications for asylum
are much stricter and refugees are granted a food allowance of less
than $2 per month, according to a February article in Spiegel. In
2012, refugees from Somalia went on a hunger strike in protest of the
meager food allowance.”
“In
2007, the 'Agreement between the European Community and Ukraine on
readmission of persons' was ratified and readmission of asylum
seekers who entered the EU through Ukraine began in 2010. [...]
Numerous reports also accused Ukrainian security forces of using
electric shock to torture detainees during interrogations [...] The
new facilities significantly expand the existing system and create
two new long-term detention centers in addition to the Zhuravychi
facility in western Ukraine.”
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