Izolyatsia prison

The building was constructed in 1955 as a factory for processing raw mineral cotton and was later adapted to produce stitched mineral cotton slabs, mineral cotton wool, basaltic fiber, basaltic cardboard, basaltic mates, and slabs on basaltic basis. The factory closed in 1990. From 2010 to 2014, the Izolyatsia Foundation, centered around the creative arts, occupied the site. The name of the arts organization is taken from that of the factory and its main product, insulation, and also means "isolation". "Izolyatsia" is one of 160 illegal prisons in the Russia-occupied territories of Ukraine. claimed that the premises were necessary to store humanitarian aid received from the Russian Federation. According to Leonid Baranov, who was the State Security Minister of the DPR at the time, the Izolyatsia Foundation's site was seized for ideological reasons: It was thought that the Foundation's values would bring harm to the DPR. Liubov Mikhailova, Izolyatsia Foundation's founder, claims that infrastructure played a part since Izolyatsia is a 7.5ha developed site. According to the data presented in the DRA's report and the media initiative for human rights, the Vostok Battalion settled on the site in June 2014 and prisoners of war and civilian hostages were kept on the premises. ==Conditions==

According to the testimony of former prisoners, the offices and basements of the former factory were reequipped as jail cells with five-litre cans for toilets. A few of the administrative buildings were used by the staff of the Izolyatsia prison as torture chambers. and that its conditions more closely resemble those of a concentration camp. Prisoners are forced to work for the wardens, who regularly use physical violence, and are deprived of food, water, By 2017, there were still no toilets in the cells located above the basements, so prisoners were led to a separate building to use the toilets twice a day. He described the torture leading to suicide attempts of several prisoners. ==Notable prisoners==

In 2014, there were more than 100 prisoners in Izolyatsia. Dmitrii Potekhin, have all been held in Izolyatsia. ==Roman Lyagin case==

In June 2019, Lyagin was apprehended by representatives of the SSU. Lyagin was accused of participation in a terrorist organisation, infringement of Ukraine's territorial integrity, and treason for his role in organising a referendum regarding the status of the DPR, the results of which were not recognised by Ukraine, the European Union or the United States. Lyagin was also implicated in the seizure of the Izolyatsia Foundation's site by the DPR. Representatives of the foundation and former captives of the Izolyatsia prison insist that Lyagin is personally responsible for the seizure of the site and its transformation into a secret prison, but Kyiv's Shevchenkovskyi Court has not recognised the foundation or the former Izolyatsia prisoners as an injured party in the Lyagin case. ==Propaganda==

Photographs and videos were produced at Izolyatsia showing ISIL fighters alongside soldiers from the Ukrainian Azov Battalion. An investigation conducted by BBC journalists with assistance from Wikimapia established where the shoot took place and refuted the material as fake. ==Creative works==

• 2018: essay collection by Stanislav Aseyev, V іzolyatsiï (In isolation). • 2020: documentary film, Kontstabir "Izoliatsiia" (Izoliatsiia concentration camp), directed by Sergii Ivanov. • == See also ==