{"id":1767,"date":"2025-04-30T11:11:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T08:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyivdefensepolicy.org\/?p=1767"},"modified":"2025-09-04T21:24:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T18:24:51","slug":"inside-taganrog-sizo-2-anatomy-of-russias-systemic-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyivdefensepolicy.org\/de\/2025\/04\/30\/inside-taganrog-sizo-2-anatomy-of-russias-systemic-torture\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Taganrog SIZO-2: Anatomy of Russia\u2019s Systemic Torture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian reconstructs how Taganrog\u2019s pre-trial detention centre No. 2 (SIZO-2) in southern Russia was turned after the February 2022 invasion into the most feared hub of a system designed to break Ukrainian prisoners. <span class=\"\" data-state=\"closed\"><span class=\"ms-1 inline-flex max-w-full items-center relative top-[-0.094rem] animate-[show_150ms_ease-in]\" data-testid=\"webpage-citation-pill\"><a class=\"flex h-4.5 overflow-hidden rounded-xl px-2 text-[9px] font-medium text-token-text-secondary! bg-[#F4F4F4]! dark:bg-[#303030]! transition-colors duration-150 ease-in-out\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/30\/inside-taganrog-beatings-electrocution-and-starvation-at-prison-where-ukrainians-were-tortured\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"relative start-0 bottom-0 flex h-full w-full items-center\"><span class=\"flex h-4 w-full items-center justify-between overflow-hidden\"><span class=\"max-w-full grow truncate overflow-hidden text-center\">theguardian.com<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span> Drawing on survivor testimony, legal sources and open records, the investigation shows a jail redesigned for intimidation, forced confessions and attrition. On arrival, detainees\u2014combatants and civilians\u2014faced a ritualised \u201creception\u201d: blindfolded, bound and forced through a gauntlet of punches, kicks and baton strikes. Interrogations then layered on beatings, electrocution, waterboarding, mock executions and bizarre humiliations, such as taping prisoners into \u201chuman furniture\u201d. <span class=\"\" data-state=\"closed\"><span class=\"ms-1 inline-flex max-w-full items-center relative top-[-0.094rem] animate-[show_150ms_ease-in]\" data-testid=\"webpage-citation-pill\"><a class=\"flex h-4.5 overflow-hidden rounded-xl px-2 text-[9px] font-medium text-token-text-secondary! bg-[#F4F4F4]! dark:bg-[#303030]! transition-colors duration-150 ease-in-out\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/30\/inside-taganrog-beatings-electrocution-and-starvation-at-prison-where-ukrainians-were-tortured\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"relative start-0 bottom-0 flex h-full w-full items-center\"><span class=\"flex h-4 w-full items-center justify-between overflow-hidden\"><span class=\"max-w-full grow truncate overflow-hidden text-center\">theguardian.com<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span> Food rations were deliberately meagre; former inmates described counting pasta pieces and losing as much as 25kg during months in custody. A ban on speaking Ukrainian, constant searches and the ever-present screams from two identified torture buildings reinforced control. <span class=\"\" data-state=\"closed\"><span class=\"ms-1 inline-flex max-w-full items-center relative top-[-0.094rem] animate-[show_150ms_ease-in]\" data-testid=\"webpage-citation-pill\"><a class=\"flex h-4.5 overflow-hidden rounded-xl px-2 text-[9px] font-medium text-token-text-secondary! bg-[#F4F4F4]! dark:bg-[#303030]! transition-colors duration-150 ease-in-out\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/30\/inside-taganrog-beatings-electrocution-and-starvation-at-prison-where-ukrainians-were-tortured\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"relative start-0 bottom-0 flex h-full w-full items-center\"><span class=\"flex h-4 w-full items-center justify-between overflow-hidden\"><span class=\"max-w-full grow truncate overflow-hidden text-center\">theguardian.com<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span> Investigative partners converted detailed testimonies into a 3D model of the facility and mapped the rooms used for torture, interrogation and holding cells. <span class=\"\" data-state=\"closed\"><span class=\"ms-1 inline-flex max-w-full items-center relative top-[-0.094rem] animate-[show_150ms_ease-in]\" data-testid=\"webpage-citation-pill\"><a class=\"flex h-4.5 overflow-hidden rounded-xl px-2 text-[9px] font-medium text-token-text-secondary! bg-[#F4F4F4]! dark:bg-[#303030]! transition-colors duration-150 ease-in-out\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/30\/inside-taganrog-beatings-electrocution-and-starvation-at-prison-where-ukrainians-were-tortured\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"relative start-0 bottom-0 flex h-full w-full items-center\"><span class=\"flex h-4 w-full items-center justify-between overflow-hidden\"><span class=\"max-w-full grow truncate overflow-hidden text-center\">theguardian.com<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span> Numbers place Taganrog in a wider carceral architecture: Ukraine\u2019s ombudsman has recorded roughly 16,000 civilians as disappeared, with Russia believed to be holding detainees across as many as 180 locations; the collaboration documented systematic torture at 29 sites. <span class=\"\" data-state=\"closed\"><span class=\"ms-1 inline-flex max-w-full items-center relative top-[-0.094rem] animate-[show_150ms_ease-in]\" data-testid=\"webpage-citation-pill\"><a class=\"flex h-4.5 overflow-hidden rounded-xl px-2 text-[9px] font-medium text-token-text-secondary! bg-[#F4F4F4]! dark:bg-[#303030]! transition-colors duration-150 ease-in-out\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/30\/inside-taganrog-beatings-electrocution-and-starvation-at-prison-where-ukrainians-were-tortured\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"relative start-0 bottom-0 flex h-full w-full items-center\"><span class=\"flex h-4 w-full items-center justify-between overflow-hidden\"><span class=\"max-w-full grow truncate overflow-hidden text-center\">theguardian.com<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span> Inside Taganrog, the FSB oversaw key interrogations, while rotating FSIN special-forces teams from several regions carried out much of the violence, using call signs and masks to hide identities. Early in the war, senior prison officials allegedly signalled that officers had carte blanche to \u201cwork hard, do everything possible\u201d, and body-camera use was curtailed\u2014steps that, rights monitors argue, point to organisation and approval at the highest levels in Moscow. <span class=\"\" data-state=\"closed\"><span class=\"ms-1 inline-flex max-w-full items-center relative top-[-0.094rem] animate-[show_150ms_ease-in]\" data-testid=\"webpage-citation-pill\"><a class=\"flex h-4.5 overflow-hidden rounded-xl px-2 text-[9px] font-medium text-token-text-secondary! bg-[#F4F4F4]! dark:bg-[#303030]! transition-colors duration-150 ease-in-out\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/30\/inside-taganrog-beatings-electrocution-and-starvation-at-prison-where-ukrainians-were-tortured\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"relative start-0 bottom-0 flex h-full w-full items-center\"><span class=\"flex h-4 w-full items-center justify-between overflow-hidden\"><span class=\"max-w-full grow truncate overflow-hidden text-center\">theguardian.com<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span> Civilians were kept incommunicado, outside any clear legal basis. Families often learned a relative\u2019s fate only when released POWs mentioned cellmates; lawyers were blocked by blanket written \u201crefusals\u201d purportedly signed by clients and by routine denials of entry. <span class=\"\" data-state=\"closed\"><span class=\"ms-1 inline-flex max-w-full items-center relative top-[-0.094rem] animate-[show_150ms_ease-in]\" data-testid=\"webpage-citation-pill\"><a class=\"flex h-4.5 overflow-hidden rounded-xl px-2 text-[9px] font-medium text-token-text-secondary! bg-[#F4F4F4]! dark:bg-[#303030]! transition-colors duration-150 ease-in-out\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/30\/inside-taganrog-beatings-electrocution-and-starvation-at-prison-where-ukrainians-were-tortured\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"relative start-0 bottom-0 flex h-full w-full items-center\"><span class=\"flex h-4 w-full items-center justify-between overflow-hidden\"><span class=\"max-w-full grow truncate overflow-hidden text-center\">theguardian.com<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span> Former inmates recounted that Taganrog absorbed both prominent defenders from Mariupol\u2019s Azov Brigade and ordinary civilians swept up in occupied areas, blurring any distinction between POWs and alleged \u201cdisloyal\u201d residents. <span class=\"\" data-state=\"closed\"><span class=\"ms-1 inline-flex max-w-full items-center relative top-[-0.094rem] animate-[show_150ms_ease-in]\" data-testid=\"webpage-citation-pill\"><a class=\"flex h-4.5 overflow-hidden rounded-xl px-2 text-[9px] font-medium text-token-text-secondary! bg-[#F4F4F4]! dark:bg-[#303030]! transition-colors duration-150 ease-in-out\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/30\/inside-taganrog-beatings-electrocution-and-starvation-at-prison-where-ukrainians-were-tortured\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"relative start-0 bottom-0 flex h-full w-full items-center\"><span class=\"flex h-4 w-full items-center justify-between overflow-hidden\"><span class=\"max-w-full grow truncate overflow-hidden text-center\">theguardian.com<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span> Collectively, the testimony, documents and imagery sketch a system not of isolated excesses but of policy: a network in which torture, starvation and dehumanisation are instruments of war, calibrated to extract information, enforce submission and erase Ukrainian identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation into Taganrog\u2019s SIZO-2 details a Kremlin-sanctioned system of torture and starvation used against Ukrainian civilians and POWs, from brutal \u201creceptions\u201d on arrival to electric shocks, waterboarding, and legal black holes that block families and lawyers.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[677,678],"class_list":["post-1767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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