A blind man says he was held for nearly five days at an Odesa recruitment center
The man claims that he was not allowed to leave for nearly five days
Peresyp District Court of Odesa ordered the State Bureau of Investigation to enter information from a blind man’s report of possible offenses into the Unified Register of Pretrial Investigations. The complainant says he was held at a territorial recruitment center (TRC) for almost five days, despite having been removed from military registration on health grounds. The court issued the ruling on October 19, 2026.
According to the man, he was removed from military registration in 2020 and 2023. Later, however, the register showed that he was still registered and wanted. In February 2026, a court ruled that the TRC had acted unlawfully by entering this information.
Despite this, the complainant says he was forcibly taken to the TRC on March 14. He said that while he was being held, his communication devices were taken away and no proper documents were drawn up. He was released after his lawyer intervened and medical documents were provided.
In October, the man filed a report with the SBI about possible offenses. The information was not entered into the Unified Register of Pretrial Investigations, so his representative filed a complaint with the court over the investigators’ inaction.
The complaint was only partially upheld. In addition to requesting that the information be entered into the register, the representative asked the court to order investigators to open an investigation and question officials. The court denied these requests.
The ruling is not subject to appeal. It does not establish that TRC employees are guilty.
We previously reported:
- Men were abducted and tortured: nine members of TRC groups sentenced in Odesa
- Father of five minor children unlawfully held at a TRC in Kyiv
- Nine men from a regional TRC detained in Odesa region for torturing and sexually assaulting people liable for military service
- Veteran with a disability reports being assaulted by TRC employees in Lutsk
- Bill banning TRC employees from using force and detaining people registered in Parliament
