11 years ago, on June 9, 2014, the Russian Federation seized and turned the «Izolyatsia» Platform for Cultural Initiatives in Donetsk (https://izolyatsia.ui.org.ua) into an illegal prison and de facto concentration camp, where detainees are subjected to torture, including electric shocks and mock executions, and sexual violence. 

After February 24, 2022, when Russia launched its full-scale military invasion of Ukraine, it continued to favor the shooting of unarmed civilians, torture, rape, «filtration  camps»  and illegal detention. And this is not a complete list of atrocities that have revealed the true face of «Russianness». 

The leveling by the Russian Federation of universal values of humanity, unfreedom, untruth, which are the most obvious evidence of the real face of the terrorist state, are screened, in particular, in the documentary film «Izolyatsia» (directed by I.Minaev, http://surl.li/ixytso) and in the biographical film about S.Aseyev «The Bright Path» (directed by I.Ryabenka, http://surl.li/tvvcyg). As noted by writer Stanislav Aseev, who was held in the illegal «Izolyatsia» prison in 2017-2019, «the «Izolyatsia» concentration camp is Russia in miniature, and it will come to everyone in Europe if Ukraine falls». 

We call on the international community to increase pressure on the Russian Federation until its crimes are halted and all prisoners held in the «Izolyatsia» prison, as well as in other torture and filtration camps, are released. 

We further urge renewed and intensified efforts to ensure the effective work of the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine, which will allow for a proper investigation and prosecution of all those responsible.