Irina Danilovich

Affiliated media: Crimean Medicine Without a Cover, Civil Journalist, Activist

Incident date: April 29, 2022

Attack type:

• Criminal/administrative prosecution excluding (1), (2) and (3)

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Committee for Protection of Journalists

Location: Republic of Crimea, Vladislavovka village

Additional information:

Danilovich disappeared for almost two weeks after her detention on April 29. Her lawyer said that she was held in the Federal Security Service department in Crimea until the preventive measure was imposed on May 7. Danilovich said that she was fed once a day and held in the basement of the FSS office in Simferopol for eight days – from April 29 until she was taken to court. On April 29, six men arrived at the house where Danilovich and her parents live, searched and confiscated the family's laptops and phones, and the journalist's parents were told that she was detained for 10 days allegedly for sending information to another country. The journalist's father said that the men did not identify themselves, their cars had no identification signs, and his request to show any court documents was denied. On May 11, it became known that the Crimean department of the Federal Security Service of Russia accused her of the illegal handling of explosives.