Danylovych Iryna

Born on May 6, 1979, Iryna Danylovych resided in Crimea, where her family moved in 1983. She graduated from the medical institute. For 4 years, she lived in Belgorod and worked in advocacy, then returned to Ukraine and resided in Feodosia. She was active in the local trade union movement, headed the Crimean branch of The Alliance of Doctors and worked as a journalist.

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. The journalist informed that she had suffered pressure and grievous bodily harm. Her father told that Iryna’s physical condition was very poor: she suffered from heavy headaches and otalgia and could barely walk. Since the day of her detention, Iryna went deaf in one ear, obtained difficulties with coordination and motor skills, and had presumably suffered more than one micro stroke in detention.

Iryna Danylovych is imprisoned under the article 222.1, chapter 1 of the Russian Federation’s Criminal Code ("Illegal purchasing, transferring, storage, transportation, sending or carrying explosive or explosive devices") and sentenced to 6 years and 11 months behind the bars. She is held in the penal colony №7 in the city of Zelenokumsk (Stavropol Krai, Russian Federation).