In a Russian prison, inmates are threatening to kill Crimean journalist Irina Danilovich

Iryna Danilovych, a Crimean journalist and human rights activist illegally detained by Russia, who is being held at Women’s Colony No. 7 in Zelenokumsk (Stavropol Krai, Russian Federation), is facing systematic death threats from other inmates. 

According to human rights activists and the journalist’s sister, Olga Novitskaya, the threats are made in the presence of Federal Penitentiary Service staff, who openly ignore these actions and tacitly encourage the pressure.

In addition, other methods of torture and psychological coercion are being used against Danilovich: bright spotlights are kept on around the clock, she is forced to stand on the parade ground for hours, and loud music is played regularly. The latter causes the journalist to suffer bouts of acute pain due to a chronic ear condition that developed as a result of the lack of adequate medical care in the Russian prison system. In light of the critical deterioration of her health, Reporters Without Borders and the Human Rights Foundation have already appealed to six UN special rapporteurs, calling on them to take urgent action.

Source: the “Archipelago of the Federal Penitentiary Service” project.

Previously, the 2nd Eastern District Military Court sentenced Krasnokamensk resident Katerina Malovekhina to 24 years in a general-regime penal colony. She was found guilty of treason, sabotage, participation in a terrorist organization, the illegal manufacture and storage of explosives, and money laundering.

Previously, a Russian court sentenced Olga Denisova, a 39-year-old resident of the Donetsk region, to five years in a penal colony. The woman was found guilty of allegedly aiding and abetting participation in a “terrorist community” through her work as a laundress at a military unit where the “Azov” battalion was based.

In Russia, the aggressor state, Mykola Zuyzev, a citizen of Canada and Russia, was sentenced to seven years in prison for treason.