Political prisoner Iryna Danylovych in Russian colony almost lost her hearing due to the indifference of the occupiers

October 17, 2024
As it became known to the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, 45-year-old political prisoner Iryna Danylovych, serving her sentence in colony No. 7 in Zelenokumsk, lost hearing in her left ear after otitis externa. In addition, the left side of her body is numb after a microstroke, and the woman constantly complains of heart and headaches.

It is important to note that if Iryna had received timely medical care, all these consequences could have been avoided. But naturally, the administration of the Russian colony ignores complaints about deteriorating health, and the transfer of medicines from relatives and volunteers is limited to just one pill.

Obtaining medical care becomes more complicated: to get all the necessary medications, Iryna needs prescriptions from Russian doctors, which can be obtained only after she is brutally escorted for examination. The woman is transported to doctors in Stavropol, which is 300 kilometers away from the colony, in isolation cells of motorized trucks (“glasses”), which leads to even greater exhaustion. After such “journeys” any desire to ask for medical help from the occupants disappears.

Recently, Iryna Danylovych’s father Bronislav Danylovych died, having never waited for his daughter’s return. Now the woman is left with her mother, who has serious health problems and can barely move. She is waiting for a speedy exchange and the return of her daughter home, living only with this hope.

We would like to remind that on April 29, 2022 in the occupied Crimea in the village Vladislavovka near Kefe (Feodosia) Russian law enforcers conducted a search in the house of civic journalist Iryna Danylovych, after which the woman was detained.

On December 28, 2022, the illegal occupation “court” in Kefe (Feodosia) passed a “sentence” against Iryna Danylovych: seven years of imprisonment in a penal colony and a fine of 50 thousand Russian rubles.

We also recall that Russia’s actions are a violation of the Geneva Convention, according to which the failure to provide medical assistance is equal to torture and ill treatment.