Mariupol Pre-trial Detention Centre

State Institution "Mariupol Pre-trial Detention Centre" was part of the structure of the State Criminal-Executive Service of Ukraine and performed the functions of a pre-trial detention centre, ensuring the custody of persons taken into custody, as well as specific categories of convicts, in accordance with the requirements of Ukraine's criminal procedural and criminal-executive legislation.

Following the start of the full-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine and the occupation of the city of Mariupol in 2022, the institution found itself in the temporarily occupied territory. Consequently, Ukraine lost the ability to manage the institution, monitor the conditions of detention, and receive reliable information regarding the subsequent use of its property complex.

After the capture of the city, the pre-trial detention centre's property complex was used by the occupation authorities to create illegal penitentiary structures that function outside the legal framework of Ukraine.

Thus, State Institution "Mariupol Pre-trial Detention Centre" belongs to those institutions of the State Criminal-Executive Service of Ukraine that, after 24 February 2022, found themselves in the temporarily occupied territory and effectively lost the ability to conduct their activities in accordance with the legislation of Ukraine.

In accordance with the Constitution of Ukraine and the Law of Ukraine "On Ensuring the Rights and Freedoms of Citizens and the Legal Regime on the Temporarily Occupied Territory of Ukraine," the territory on which the institution is located is an inalienable part of Ukraine, and state property remains the property of Ukraine regardless of the actual control over it.