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(22 May 2015) Both warring sides of the conflict in east Ukraine are almost daily perpetrating war crimes, including torture and summary killings of prisoners, rights group Amnesty International said in a report published on Friday.
Amnesty said it had heard accounts from former captives of government and separatist forces of savage beatings, torture with electric shocks, kicking and stabbing.
Anxiety about treatment of prisoners comes as Ukrainian authorities face scrutiny this week for publicly parading two men they said were Russian soldiers captured while fighting alongside separatists.
Amnesty said it interviewed 17 captives of the separatists and another 16 held by government forces for its report.
It said the worst abuse tended to occur during the first days of captivity and that groups operating largely outside the chain of command were the most violent.
Amnesty identified the Right Sector nationalist militia as one of the worst culprits on the pro-government side.
The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which is monitoring a shaky armistice agreement in Ukraine, has expressed misgivings over the government's treatment of two prisoners.
Under a February peace agreement, all prisoners held by the Ukrainian government and separatists alike had been due for release in early March, but virtually no progress has been achieved.

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