21/02/2022 08:43

Commissioner: Natalia Zelenina, a citizen of Ukraine, has been illegally detained in the ORDO for the fifth year in a row

Natalia Zelenina, the citizen of Ukraine, has been illegally detained for the fifth year in a row in the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk region. This was announced by the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Lyudmyla Denisova.

Natalia lived permanently in Donetsk and could not leave her hometown after the temporary occupation due to her elderly mother. Periodically, she went to Vinnytsia, where under the state program she received the medicines she needed, the stocks of which in the ORDO ran out.

On November 5, 2017, returning from Vinnytsia, she was detained by representatives of the occupation administration in the village of Olenivka in the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk region. During the inspection, they found drugs prescribed by her doctor and accused Natalia of smuggling.

Almost from the first days of the "arrest", the woman was held in a pre-trial detention center in Donetsk, where she was not provided with emergency care, which is necessary after stopping the drug, which can be regarded as torture.

The so-called "DPR Supreme Court" sentenced Natalia Zelenina to 11 years in prison for "drug smuggling."

Natalia is currently being held illegally in the Snizhnyansk Women's Correctional Facility №127, where she does not receive adequate medical care as prescribed by doctors. Only the mother takes care of the daughter and passes on what is needed.

"Such actions against Ukrainian citizen Natalia Zelenina violate not only Ukrainian law but also international law, including the 1949 Geneva Conventions on the Rules of War, the Additional Protocols to the 1977 Geneva Conventions and the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. people of 1950 ", - Lyudmila Denisova emphasized.

The Commissioner appealed to the ICRC leadership in Ukraine to urgently visit Natalia Zelenina, facilitate her immediate hospitalization and provide qualified medical care.

The Ombudsman also asked the OSCE Coordinator in the Charlotte Contact Group's humanitarian subgroup, Charlotte Relander, to intervene personally to provide appropriate assistance.