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Uzbekistan proposes raising tariffs for visits with prisoners, video calls and telephone conversations

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Uzbekistan has put forward for public discussion a draft resolution on new tariffs for long-term visits, remote video meetings and telephone calls with convicts. The fee for a two-person visit room may rise from 5% to 20% of the BRV per day, and for a minute of video communication — to 0.5% of the BRV.

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A Pole captured near Izyum refused to give up trousers with money rolled up inside them

SVO veteran and former reconnaissance sniper Azamat Yermukhanov told RIA Novosti about a Polish mercenary who, while surrendering near Izyum in 2022, first of all tried to keep his trousers containing a large sum of money. This was reported on November 8 by Life.ru and Gazeta.Ru. Yermukhanov also recalled that prisoners were taken often at the time due to the minimal distance between positions.

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Grigoryev's tribunal says it has collected more than a thousand testimonies of torture in Ukrainian captivity

Chairman of the International Public Tribunal Maxim Grigoryev told TASS that the organization has collected more than a thousand testimonies of torture of Russian servicemen in Ukrainian captivity and continues to record reports, including statements about the mistreatment of Ukrainian citizens. Context: the problem of 'shadow captivity', the October 23 exchange, and the case of the DBR near Kyiv.

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