them with staged executions.
Since September, the lawyer was transferred to the village of #Verbove, several dozen kilometres from #Melitopol. There, the man was forced to dig trenches for the #Russian military or clean weapons. #Ilchenko spent several months there. Now, according to #RSF, the lawyer is in detention in #Taganrog.
"This is the first time, in nearly forty years of defending journalism, that #RSF has documented a journalist, blogger or whistleblower subject to
the presence of the #Russian military, petty corruption, and lines for documents.
On July 10, the #Russian military stormed #Ilchenko's house. They searched the lawyer's apartment and stole jewellery and documents. #Ilchenko himself was detained under the "terrorism" article #RSF.
At first, #Ilchenko was kept in #Melitopol for several weeks and tortured together with other prisoners. According to #RSF, the #Russian military connected electrodes to the genitals of the prisoners and intimidated
#Russia keeps a lawyer from #Melitopol who ran a Telegram channel about the life of the city under occupation as a slave - Reporters Without Borders #RSF.
Before the full-scale war in #Ukraine began, #Yevhen_Ilchenko worked in #Melitopol as a lawyer. At the very beginning of the invasion, the city was occupied by #Russian troops. In May, #Ilchenko created a Telegram channel in which he published news about the city. He wrote about problems with the supply of supermarkets,
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