In Crimea, FSB officers kept nurse and civil activist Irina Danilovich in the basement, threatening and forcing her to sign a confession under torture. About it report “Grati” with reference to the lawyer Ayder Azamatov.
Danilovich is on trial for possession of explosives (Part 1 of Article 222.1 of the Criminal Code). On May 11, the lawyer saw a nurse in the Simferopol pre-trial detention center during the presentation of charges. Danilovich told the lawyer that the FSB officers had detained her and taken her to a deserted place near the village of Nasypnoye, where they confiscated her phones and her bag.
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After that, she was brought to the special services office in Simferopol, where she was placed in the basement. She spent more than a week there, she was fed once a day 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 over her head and offered her a choice – “forest or prison.” Azamatov said that, according to Danilovich, the security services threatened to “take the nurse to Mariupol” where she would “get lost.”
After that, according to the lawyer, she was interrogated for three days with the help of a polygraph, asking about her connections with foreign special services, media and organizations and her involvement in Crimean Solidarity. The polygraph confirmed all Danilovich’s negative answers.
Then the security forces persuaded the nurse to sign the protocols and two blank sheets of paper without reading, and to say on the video that no “methods of influence” were used against her. Danilovich told her lawyer that she did this because the FSB officers had promised to let her go. But in the end, Danilovich was brought to the Kyiv District Court of Simferopol, where he was arrested for two months in the case of possession of explosives.
According to the lawyer, according to the FSB, 200 grams of explosives in TNT equivalent were found in the lining of a glasses case in a nurse’s purse. In the same case, she kept medical needles and a tourniquet. The investigation claims that Danilovich was going to use the needles as “striking elements.”
At the same time, during the first examination after the arrest, recorded on video, nothing was found. Danilovich insists that the explosives were planted on her, and the case was falsified.
Irina Danilovich was detained on April 29 at 6 am, when she was returning home from work from Koktebel to the village of Vladislavovka. At 10 am, OMON officers searched her parents’ house. According to the lawyer, six people were present at the search: two witnesses and four employees in balaclavas. They seized equipment, books, documents and all phones.
By words Bronislav Danilovich, Irina’s father, he obtained access to the CCTV footage at a gas station in Crimea, where a possible abduction was recorded. He managed to watch the video. The recording shows how a black car drives up to a woman who looks like Danilovich, standing at a bus stop. People in civilian clothes got out of it and pushed her into the car.
Danilovich filed a complaint with the police demanding that a criminal case be initiated into the forced abduction of his daughter. Earlier, Ayder Azamatov applied to the prosecutor’s office about the disappearance of the activist.
For almost two weeks, the Danilovich family and human rights activists searched for Irina in all detention centers and special detention centers in Crimea and beyond. On May 11, lawyer Ayder Azamatov found the missing activist in the Simferopol pre-trial detention center.
Danilovich was born in Belarus, in the city of Vitebsk, lived in Russian Belgorod, and shortly before the annexation of Crimea, she moved to the peninsula and received Ukrainian citizenship. In the Crimea, Danilovich worked as a nurse and participated in the trade union movement of doctors. After the local organization “Alliance of Doctors” in Feodosia demanded the promised “covid” payments, Irina and her colleagues were fired. Then she continued to cover the problems of the Crimean healthcare as a citizen journalist.
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