Following SSU investigation, chief prison warden of russia, who created torture chambers network on Kherson region's left bank, sentenced in absentia
Security Service of Ukraine
17:40, 19 June 2025
Following an investigation by the Security Service of Ukraine, Arkady Gostev, director of russia's federal penitentiary service, has been convicted in absentia to 10 years in prison.
This russian general organized a network of prison camps on the temporarily occupied left bank of Kherson oblast.
It was on his orders that russian forces converted prisons captured in the region into torture chambers where members of the resistance movement are being held.
In the jails, the victims are subjected to brutal torture in an attempt to break their resistance to the kremlin regime.
The investigation established that the official personally coordinated setting up prison facilities in the temporarily occupied part. He then included them in the general register of russian prisons and pushed the decision through the russian ministry of justice.
Based on evidence collected by SSU investigators, the court found Gostev guilty under Article 109.1 of the CCU (actions aimed at the forceful change or overthrow of constitutional order or seizure of state power).
Since the perpetrator is in the aggressor state, efforts to bring him to justice for crimes against Ukraine are underway.
The investigation was conducted by the SSU Kherson Office under the procedural supervision of the regional Prosecutor's Office.
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