Kaharlyk Police Abuse Case: Top Court Affirms Ruling on Ex-Cops

The High Court has validated the punishments handed down to a pair of ex-officers from the Kaharlytskyi police force, who were convicted on charges of torment, forced abduction, and sexual assault, confirming their 11-year imprisonment terms.

Torture and rape at Kaharlytskyi police station: Supreme Court upholds verdict against former law enforcement officers

The Highest Court has affirmed the judgment against a duo of one-time members of the Kaharlytskyi police station. They were adjudged culpable of torment, involuntary disappearance, and sexual violation. The Office of the Attorney General conveys this, UNN indicates.

On February 19, 2026, the Supreme Court, with the involvement of prosecutors from the Attorney General’s Office, sustained the pronouncement for two prior functionaries of the Kaharlytskyi police precinct. They stood convicted of torment, enforced vanishing, and rape.

– the communication states.

Word is that in May of 2023, the guilty parties received sentences of 11 years of confinement.

It was determined that they regularly subjected individuals to torment and unlawful constraint. The most grave instance took place in May of 2020, when a female, called in as a witness, underwent torment – being made to wear a gas mask, restrained with handcuffs, shot at above the head, and repeatedly sexually violated. The inquiry also registered additional occurrences: beatings, torture via electric shock, keeping people in the boot of a vehicle, and attaching them to a heating unit with handcuffs.

During the probe, all victims and eyewitnesses were interrogated, and the evidence presented by all sides was scrutinized.

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