him off, saying that she was in a mistake and has since not answered his calls. Even if appointed by the investigators, she is legally obliged to consult with the family. The fact that she is refusing to have any contact only confirms the fear that her role is essentially to sign pieces of paper, and she is in fact working for the prosecution. The same applies to Andriy Zakhtei.

An undisclosed source close to the law enforcement bodies in occupied Crimea has informed that Panov was systematically tortured for three days before the FSB’s public announcement and the televised broadcast of his interrogation during which he looked beaten. According to the source, Panov was handcuffed and held bound, while being given electric shocks, and had a plastic bagor more hydroprocessing stages, which are in separate reaction vessels and wherein each reaction stage contains a bed of hydroprocessing catalyst. The liquid product from the first reaction stage is sent to a low pressure stripping stage and stripped of hydrogen sulfide, ammonia and other dissolved gases. The stripped product stream is then sent to the next downstream reaction stage, the product from which is also stripped of dissolved gases and sent to the next downstream reaction stage until the last reaction stage, the liquid product of which is stripped of dissolved gases and collected or passed on for further processing. The flow of treat gas is in a direction opposite the direction in which the reaction stages are staged for the flow of liquid. Each stripping stage