45 giornalisti si sono uniti alle forze per indagare sulla morte e la tortura del giornalista ucraino Viktoriia Roshchyna in cattività russa e completare il suo lavoro.

>From the article:
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Viktoriia had only one mission, almost an obsession: to report from these occupied zones, regardless of the danger it entailed. Viktoriia was determined to give a voice and a face to the victims of the brutal occupation; document the atrocities; and above all, investigate the fate of the countless civilians who had become hostages of the repressive Russian apparatus. These “ghost prisoners” are held in secret, with no contact with the outside world, no lawyers, and often no official charges brought against them*..*

>*Forbidden Stories*, whose mission is to pursue and publish the work of journalists threatened, imprisoned, or killed for their work, launched the Viktoriia Project as soon as the news of her death broke. Faced with the difficulties and risks inherent in investigating such a subject, only the joint effort of journalists could help expose the illegal practices of Russian forces in occupied Ukraine. Members of the consortium led by *Forbidden Stories* collected more than 50 testimonies from former prisoners—both civilian and military—relatives of detainees, and legal experts in Ukraine and Russia, as well as the accounts of four Russian prison officials who defected. These testimonies were cross-checked with open-source research focused on the three detention centers where Viktoriia was allegedly held. Ukrainian intelligence documents gave the consortium the unprecedented ability to name the alleged perpetrators of torture in these and other prisons.

From The Viktoriia Project, continuing her work:

Since Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, thousands of Ukrainian civilians in the occupied territories have vanished into thin air. These “ghost prisoners” are whisked away by the occupying forces to informal places of detention, where they’re held outside any legal framework and tortured. Some are then transferred to the Russian prison system, where they languish without charges or serve trumped-up sentences. *Forbidden Stories* and its partners unveil this opaque system designed to break down Ukrainian society.

[https://forbiddenstories.org/russia-disappears-ukrainian-civilians/](https://forbiddenstories.org/russia-disappears-ukrainian-civilians/)