VOA Interview: UN special rapporteur details Russia's state-sanctioned torture

During an interview with VOA in Washington, Mariana Katzarova, the U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in Russia, said Russia's "the state-sanctioned system of torture" is being used as "a tool" to control the country's people, Oct. 29, 2024.

Mariana Katzarova, United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Russia, reported Tuesday on the human rights situation in Russia at the U.N. General Assembly in New York, describing torture as Moscow's main tool of repression. In an interview with VOA, Katzarova detailed how the Russian government has turned brutality into the new norm and how Russians are persecuted for their anti-war views.