The Torture Camp on Paradise Street is a memoir by Ukrainian journalist Stanislav Aseyev relating his detention in the Izolyatsia concentration and torture camp in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Donetsk between 2015 and 2017. The camp is operated by the Russian Federal Security Bureau (FSB) and is notorious for torture, rape, and psychological abuse that the prisoners are subject to.[1]
It has been in operation since 2014 and is located on a site that before Russia's first invasion of Ukraine in 2014 served as a factory and contemporary art space.[2] The camp's address is 3 Svitlyi Shliakh Street ["вулиця 'Світлий Шлях', 3'], or, literally, "Shining Path Street", a name left over from Soviet times referencing a Communist "promised land". This was translated into English as "Paradise Street".[3]
- ^ Harvard University Press, Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature. "The Torture Camp on Paradise Street by Stanislav Aseyev".
- ^ D'Anieri, Andrew (November 16, 2021). "New book recounts prisoner torture in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine".
- ^ Aseyev, Stanislav (2023). The Torture Camp on Paradise Street. Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University. pp. X. ISBN 9780674291089.