Filtration camps are another fact in the list of war crimes of the Russian Federation for consideration by a special tribunal

Large-scale construction has begun in the Volga region of Russia, which is officially positioned as the creation of children’s pioneer camps. In fact, these places will serve as filtering zones to check citizens’ loyalty to the Russian authorities. On May 23, human rights activist, executive director of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union for Human Rights Oleksandr Pavlychenko told about this.

The human rights defender noted that the first filtration camps were organized by Russia in the spring of 2022.

“These were filtering points where those Ukrainians who aroused suspicion were transported and whom they allowed to pass freely through the occupied Ukrainian territory or directly through the territory of the Russian Federation. As of 2022, more than 150 such places of detention were known. “According to the information of the Russian volunteers who visited and secured these filtration points, they had a different nature of openness and closure,” the expert clarified.

According to him, if we talk about the Russian filtration camps, the harshest conditions of detention are in those filtration places through which the civilian population evacuating from the war zone passes.

“All those who arouse suspicion are regarded by the Russians as combatants. Russia qualifies them as those who fight back or resist the so-called special military operation. This is grounds for detention without any other suspicions or charges being brought forward. Often, those who were detained later ended up in prisons in a completely different region of Russia. By the way, such actions on the part of the Russian Federation qualify as a war crime and must necessarily become the subject of consideration by a special tribunal,” said the human rights defender.

A special tribunal for Putin may appear by the end of 2024 — the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe instructed the Secretary General to prepare documents for the conclusion of an agreement between Ukraine and the Council of Europe on the creation of such an institution.