INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna was tortured during the year she spent in Russian detention, and her body was returned to Ukraine
with several organs missing, according to a joint investigation published on Tuesday.Roshchyna, 27, disappeared in the summer of 2023 while
reporting on black site prisons in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine
She died under unclear circumstances while being held at a Russian prison in September 2024
said.Investigators said the body was returned without a brain, eyes or larynx
which can contain evidence of strangulation
previously detained for 10 days in March 2022 in Russian-occupied Berdyansk.The Forbidden Stories investigation said Roshchyna was captured
in late July or early August 2023 near the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
She reportedly endured four months of torture at a black site in occupied Melitopol before being transferred to a pre-trial detention center
in the Russian city of Taganrog in December 2023.She was held without charge or legal representation
expected to be part of a September 2024 prisoner exchange brokered via Vatican backchannels.But according to The Guardian, an anonymous
detainee said a security officer told them Roshchyna never made it to the handover
