The Crimean activist Danylovych was deprived of the opportunity to take medication in the colony
Citizen journalist and activist from Crimea Iryna Danylovych was deprived of the opportunity to take the necessary medicines in the colony, without which she suffers severe attacks of headaches and earaches. This was reported by her father Bronislav Danylovych. According to his information, the colony has only 90 minutes on Tuesdays and Thursdays for the distribution of medicines. During this time, only 20-30 people from a queue of several hundred prisoners are served.
“Fights periodically occur among patients for the opportunity to be in the passage part of the queue and receive medicine. Iryna does not take part in this and for several months now she has been deprived of access to medicines prescribed by doctors, which we regularly send in parcels. It’s just some kind of sadism,” Danylovych said. He also emphasized the poor sanitary and hygienic conditions in the colony. In particular, there is no hot water and a thousand female prisoners cannot wash properly. In addition, insufficient cleaning of dishes for food affects the growth of intestinal diseases in prisoners, which no one treats, notes Bronislav Danylovych.
Danylovych worked as a nurse and maintained a page in social networks, as well as several blogger columns devoted to the rights of medical workers and health care problems on the annexed peninsula. At the end of 2023, a Russian-controlled court in Crimea sentenced Iryna Danylovych to seven years in prison. It was reported that the FSB of Russia accused her of making an explosive device with medical needles. The Prosecutor’s Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea initiated criminal proceedings on the fact of illegal searches and detention of Iryna Danylovych. And public organizations of Ukraine demanded the release of the public activist.
The Russian-controlled Supreme Court of Crimea scheduled June 15 for the hearing of an appeal against the verdict of citizen journalist Iryna Danylovych. The German writer Nina George wrote a letter to the Crimean citizen journalist Iryna Danylovych, convicted in the Russian Federation. The letter was written in honor of the annual campaign conducted by the organization PEN Intenational in support of imprisoned authors.