14/05/2022 13:36

The russian FSB falsified a criminal case against Crimean journalist Irina Danilovich

The woman was detained in the building of the russian FSB in the temporarily occupied Crimea for eight days.  There, security forces conducted a polygraph test and threatened to take her to the forest if she hid anything.

All this time Irina was fed once a day, and at the end of her stay in the FSB she was forced to sign blank forms in exchange for "liberation".  After that, she was told that they found two hundred grams of explosives in her purse and took her to the "court" to choose a measure of restraint.

On the thirteenth day after the abduction of Iryna Danilovich, the lawyer was confirmed that the journalist was in the Simferopol pre-trial detention center.

She is suspected of illegal actions with explosives (Part 1 of Article 222.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).  The sanction of the article envisages from six to eight years and a fine of up to 100 thousand rubles.

The fabricated case against Crimean journalism Irina Danilovich is an example of intimidation of independent journalists, suppression of freedom of thought in the temporarily occupied Crimea and another evidence of the policy of persecution and repression of Ukrainian citizens by the occupying country.

I call on the UN Commission for Investigation Human Rights Violations during Russia's Military Invasion of Ukraine to take into account these facts of war crimes and human rights violations in Ukraine