In annexed Crimea, FSB officers held a nurse and civic activist, Iryna Danylovych, in the basement, forcing her to sign a confession to the possession of explosives under torture.
Explosive, according to the FSB-eshniks, < strong> Irina Danilovich kept in a case for glasses. This was reported by Segodnya TV channel with reference to lawyer Ayder Azamatov.
On May 11, the lawyer met with a nurse at the Simferopol pre-trial detention center during the indictment. Danilovich told the lawyer that the FSB detained her and took her to a deserted place, where they confiscated her phone and bag. After that, they were brought to the special services department in Simferopol, where they were placed in the basement. She spent more than a week there, fed daily and taken to the toilet twice a day.
All this time, FSB investigators insisted that Danilovich sign a confession. According to the nurse, the security forces put a bag on her head and offered to choose – “forest or prison”. Azamatov said that, according to Danilovich, special services threatened to “take the nurse to Mariupol”, where she would be “lost.”
After that, according to the lawyer, she was interrogated for three days with the help of a polygraph, asking about connections with foreign intelligence services, the media and organizations and involvement in “Crimean Solidarity”. The polygraph confirmed all of Danilovich's negative answers.
Then the security forces forced the nurse to sign, without reading, the protocols and two blank sheets of paper to say in the video that she had not been subjected to “methods of influence.” Danilovich told her lawyer that she did it because the FSB promised to release her. But as a result, Danilovich was brought to the Kyiv District Court of Simferopol, where he was arrested for two months in the case of possession of explosives.
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According to the lawyer, according to the FSB, 200 grams of explosives in TNT equivalent were allegedly found in the lining of a spectacle case in a nurse's bag. She kept medical needles and a tourniquet in the same case. The investigation claims that Danilovich was going to use needles as “striking elements”.
However, at the first inspection immediately after the detention, recorded on video, no explosives were found. Danilovich insists that the explosive was thrown at her and the case was falsified.
Iryna Danilovich was detained on April 29 at 6 am as she was returning home from work in Koktebel to the village of Vladislavivka. At 10 am, riot police searched her parents' house. According to the lawyer, six people were present at the search: two witnesses and four employees in balaclavas. They confiscated equipment, books, documents and all telephones.
According to Iryna's father, Bronislav Danylovich, he gained access to a video surveillance camera recording at a gas station in the Crimea, where a possible theft was recorded. He managed to watch the video. The recording shows a black car approaching a woman similar to Danilovich standing at the bus stop. People in plainclothes got out of it and pushed her into a car.
Danilovich filed a complaint with the police demanding that a criminal case be opened on the fact of his daughter's abduction.
For almost two weeks, Danilovich's family and human rights activists searched for Irina in all detention centers and detention centers in Crimea and abroad. On May 11, lawyer Ayder Azamatov found a missing activist in the Simferopol pre-trial detention center.
The reason for the illegal arrest of Iryna Danylovych is probably that she took part in the trade union movement of medics. Irina and her colleagues were fired after a local organization of the Alliance of Doctors in Feodosia demanded the promised “crazy” payments. At the time, she continued to cover Crimean health issues as a civic activist.
