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Freed US citizen was tortured in Russian jail, former Ukrainian prisoners say
Ukrainians held alongside the American say they witnessed beatings and sexual humiliation by Russian guards during his detention.
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Stephen Hubbard (second from left in the first row) was flown back home on a US plane earlier this week
Ukrainians held alongside freed US prisoner Stephen Hubbard have said they witnessed him being beaten and humiliated by Russian guards during his four-year detention.
Dmytro Khyliuk first met Hubbard at the Novozybkov prison in Bryansk, not far from Russia's border with Ukraine, in September 2022.
Dmytro Khyliuk says Hubbard was hidden in a Russian prison to conceal his condition from a team of International Red Cross visitors