The monument to the children, tortured in prisons in 1949-1951, was erected in Lviv

On May 20^th, on the Memorial Day of the victims of political repressions in Ukraine, the monument to the children, who were innocently tortured in Lviv prisons from 1949 to 1951 was erected on the 50^th field of Yaniv cemetery. According to the Lviv City Council press service, the monument was created by sculptor Yulian Slavko, one of the initiators to erect the monument was Petro Franko -  the head of the Community of political prisoners and the repressed.