NOW suddenly, the fraudian is all about male sexual assault of prisoners when it's (supposedly) Russia doing it. Guess which country doing exactly the same (documented over and over again) they haven't said a sodding word about? Yeh, that one...

https://www.dumptheguardian.com/world/2024/oct/29/carved-on-bodies-and-souls-russias-use-of-male-sexual-torture-in-ukraine

‘Carved on bodies and souls’: survivor tells of Russia’s use of male sexual torture in Ukraine

Oleksii Sivak has set up a support group for others who have suffered widespread but unspoken abuse

Russian troops tortured Oleksii Sivak for weeks, applying electric shocks to his genitals in a freezing basement in his home city of Kherson in punishment for resisting their rule.

When Ukrainian troops freed the city in the autumn of 2022, Sivak was presented with a long list of medical specialists who could help his recovery and asked to tick the ones he needed.

Almost every part of the body and mind was covered, but there were no urologists, doctors who treat male urinary and reproductive organs.

“I asked them: ‘Am I meant to see a gynaecologist?’ I was shocked,” he said. We’ve had a war since 2014 [when Russian proxy forces occupied Crimea and parts of eastern Ukraine] and no one had even thought about male victims of sexual violence.”

It was Sivak’s first encounter with a dangerous silence, born of stigma and taboo, about the injuries his Russian jailers had inflicted. It was also his first step toward becoming an activist for a group that has been all but invisible, even as their numbers mount with disturbing speed.

The UN commissioner for human rights has documented hundreds of cases of sexual violence perpetrated by Russian troops since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Two-thirds of the victims are men and boys who were tortured in Russian jails.

Russia deploys systematic sexual torture against Ukrainians, both civilians and prisoners of war, in “almost all” detention centres where they are held, the UN found.

That includes “rape, attempted rape, threats of rape and castration, beatings or the administration of electric shocks to genitals, repeated forced nudity and sexualised humiliation”.

“The numbers in Ukraine are quite startling,” said Charu Lata Hogg, the executive director of the All Survivors Project, which supports men and boys who have endured sexual violence.

The organisation keeps a global database of cases that stretches back three decades, and the scale of new abuse recorded in Ukraine is unprecedented, she said. Sexual violence against men “happens all over the world, but the struggle is always getting documented cases”.

In Ukraine, the UN has recorded 236 incidents of sexual violence against men and two against boys in under three years.

The figures are likely to be the result of Russian forces’ systemic use of torture and Ukrainian authorities’ efforts to support survivors and collect evidence.

“I think we should credit the interviewing methods which support these disclosures,” Hogg said. Returnees “are given psychological support, and interviewed quite soon after release when trauma is high and it is relatively easier for survivors to recount their experiences”.

If Ukraine is setting an impressive example recording this form of Russian torture, it is only just beginning to grapple with its impact.