The citizen journalist was charged with absurd charges of “illegal possession of explosives” – a “traditional” fake used by the Russian occupation authorities.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine strongly condemned the “sentence” on the Ukrainian civilian journalist Irina Danilovich, which was passed by the authorities occupying Crimea. This was stated in the comments of the Foreign Ministry, published on Wednesday, December 28.
“Irina Danilovich is a citizen journalist who covered the rights of medical workers, and also worked with a number of independent media covering the political trials in the temporarily occupied Crimea. At the end of April 2022, she was abducted by Russian security forces and detained in the Simferopol pre-trial detention center. Irina Danylovych was charged with absurd charges of “illegal possession of explosives” – a “traditional” fake used by the Russian occupation authorities against Ukrainian activists, said the ministry.
It was noted that during his stay in custody and during the judicial “trial of the case”, repeated cases of the use of methods of moral and physical pressure against Danilovich, as well as the open disobedience of regardless of the need to provide medical care, is recorded. .
The Foreign Ministry recalled that the UN General Assembly, in a resolution dated December 15 this year “The human rights situation in the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine”, condemned the actions by the Russian authorities, including those against Danilovich, expressing serious concern about the continued arbitrary arrests and sentences of Ukrainian citizens for actions and statements directed against the invasion of Russian Federation in Ukraine.
The Foreign Ministry calls on the international community and Ukraine’s partners, especially within the framework of the Crimean international platform, to continue to put pressure on Russia to immediately release all Ukrainian citizens illegally detained by occupation regime in Crimea and impose punitive restrictions. to officials involved in the prosecution of Ukrainian citizens.
Recall that in Crimea, an activist was sentenced to a penal colony for “explosives in a glass case.”
As already reported, since the beginning of the announcement of mobilization in the Russian Federation, about a thousand Crimean Tatars have been forced to leave the temporarily occupied Crimea for Turkey.
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Source: korrespondent
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