‘Nine Circles of Hell’: Places of Confinement in Ukraine under Russian Occupation. March 2022 – December 2022
‘Nine Circles of Hell’: Places of Confinement in Ukraine under Russian Occupation. March 2022 – December 2022. Series of publications on torture and organised violence No. 42 (translated from English) / Vadym Chovgan, Mykhailo Romanov, Vasyl Melnychuk. 2023. — 76 pp. The title of this report, ‘Nine Circles of Hell’, was inspired by an interview with a person who survived torture while imprisoned in Northern Correctional Colony No. 90 in the Kherson Region. The prisoner could no longer endure the torture and asked to be killed. The torturer initially obtained permission to kill him from his supervisor, but then, referring to the allegory from Dante’s ‘Inferno’, said: ‘Wait, it is too early. You have not yet passed all seven (quoted) circles of hell!’ The torturer apparently meant the ‘nine circles of hell’.