The Torture Camp on Paradise Street
The Torture Camp on Paradise Street
Stanislav Aseyev – Author
Zenia Tompkins, Nina Murray – Translators
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute - Publisher
“In recognition of this personal memoir that not only testifies to the human rights violations committed by the Russian Federation, but also exposes the truth behind the existence of unofficial prisons, illegal deprivation of liberty, and torture carried out by the occupier in the city of Donetsk.”
The book chronicles journalist Stanislav Aseyev's first-hand experience in a modern-day concentration camp overseen by the Federal Security Bureau of the Russian Federation (FSB). In the two years of his illegal imprisonment in an industrial factory called Izoliatsia, Aseyev and his fellow inmates have endured horrific psychological and physical abuse, torture, denigration, endless fear, and agony. This is a story of an individual who is vulnerable to the arbitrariness of, first and foremost, armed criminals, a story of survival in a place where all mechanisms of civilized humanity no longer function, and a story of hope to remain human in the most inhuman conditions. The captivity forever altered the author’s outlook on life, yet it did not leave him helpless or defeated.
Stanislav Aseyev / Author
