Danylovych Iryna
As a citizen journalist, she collaborated with independent media, including INzhyr media project and the Crimean Process initiative
Details of the case:
Iryna Danylovych resided in Vladyslavivka near Feodosia. She worked as a nurse in Koktebel. Later she took up citizen journalism and published anonymously on the rights of medical workers, collaborated with media outlets covering political trials in occupied Crimea.
On 29 April 2022, she was abducted by four Russian security agents dressed in civilian clothes – there is a video of that. At the same time her house was being searched with all equipment confiscated. For 13 days she was held incommunicado. As it turned out, during those 8 days she was detained in the FSB building where she was polygraphed, threatened and received food only once per day. On the 13th day they informed her family that she was detained in a SIZO in Simferopol. In July 2022, she spoke out that she had been beated by the FSB convoy and that she was put under psychological pressure by the Russian security forces. On 28 December 2022, the occupational authorities sentenced Iryna Danylovych for seven years in prison and fined her 50 thousand rubles on false charges for ‘possession of explosives’.
On 21 March 2023, Iryna Danylovych informed about the beginning of her dry hunger strike in protest against her denial of medical care.
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