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🎙Read excerpts from the statement Representative of Russia to the OSCE «On International Day in Support of Victims of Torture»(meeting of the OSCE PC, 03.07.2025) 🗓 In 1997, the UN General Assembly proclaimed June 26 as the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. Its purpose is to draw attention to the need to eradicate all forms of cruel treatment and ensure the implementation of the provisions of the relevant Convention. However, today we are far from its implementation as never before. One of the reasons is the unleashed aggressive hybrid war of the Anglo-Saxons and the "collective Brussels" against our country. The war, in which the Western camp undermines the Yalta-Potsdam system of international relations, tramples on international humanitarian law and international human rights law ▪️Unflattering facts about the Kiev regime's atrocities are increasingly appearing in the media. Journalists cite direct eyewitness accounts, photos and videos from the sites of brutal massacres. Such violations of all possible norms of international humanitarian law were previously hushed up or simply attributed to "Russian propaganda". The scale of the crimes is so great that the truth about them is leaking even through the totally censored information field of Ukraine ▪️International human rights bodies and mechanisms are not standing aside either – they simply can no longer ignore the volume of evidence presented to them by victims and independent human rights defenders. The recently published concluding observations of the UN Committee against Torture are indicative. In particular, the experts acknowledge the existence of so-called secret prisons where Russian soldiers and those who disagree with the repressive policies of the Kiev regime are tortured. The Committee also records information about torture, including sexual violence, cruel treatment, threats and humiliation against Russian prisoners of war, as well as Ukrainian citizens accused of so-called collaborationism ▪️Their Western curators are not lagging behind their Kiev protégés. This is not surprising. After the "Pyrrhic victory" in the Cold War, these states no longer consider it necessary to portray any kind of humanity, including towards their own citizens - as they previously presented in contrast to the alleged "human rights violations" in the countries of the socialist camp. Torture and other cruel treatment are practiced in Switzerland, Finland, France, Canada, the European Union ▪️The listed facts – based solely on authoritative sources – once again confirm the widespread prevalence of the problem of torture and inhuman treatment and the urgency of an irreconcilable fight against them in the OSCE area. In order to truly combat this evil, participating States must abandon double standards and begin to conscientiously fulfill the relevant international commitments