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🆘 Thread. Citizen journalist, activist Iryna Danilovych was held incomunicado for 13 days, 8 of which in FSB in the temporarily occupied #Crimea. FSB officers threatened her to force to sign blank official forms.They illegally forced her to go through poligraph test.#TheTaken 1/ 
In FSB Danilovych was life-threatened, having been illegally held in the FSB for 8 days. FSB put on a plastic bag on Iryna's head threatening her to be taken to a forest. Food was provided once a day during her illegal detention, she was deprived from fulfilling basic needs. 2/
After Danilovych was forced to sign blank forms in exchange of freedom she was immediately informed that FSB found two hundred grams of explosives in her bag and took her to the "court" to choose a precautionary measure. 3/
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We demand the Russian Federation urgently release Ukrainian citizen journalist Irina Danilovych and all other victims of enforced disappearances in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, including the Autonomous Republic of Crimea & the city of Sevastopol 1/
We demand the Russian Federation urgently release Ukrainian citizen journalist Irina Danilovych and all other victims of enforced disappearances in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, including the Autonomous Republic of Crimea & the city of Sevastopol 1/
Assist the Government of Ukraine in finding and investigating cases of enforced disappearances in the occupied territories.2/
Provide comprehensive support to victims of enforced disappearances, their relatives, as well as victims of other gross human rights violations, war crimes, and crimes against humanity in the occupied territories of Ukraine. 3/
Olga is right! While our attention is rightfully shifting from Russian massacres in the center to the upcoming offensive in the east, we cannot lose sight of how Russia continues to govern the temporarily occupied south. Some observations of mine in a 🧵
Let's begin with some recommended reading. Jen Kirby wrote a terrific piece on Ukraine's disappeared. The article focuses on the abductions in the temporarily occupied south and sheds light on the Russian tactics and playbook. /1
vox.com/23012456/ukrai…
vox.com/23012456/ukrai…
Anastasiia Moskvychova, who has been tracking disappearances for @zminaUkraine, says in the article that they have confirmed more than 100 arbitrary detentions since February 24; about 50 people are still missing. /2
As a method of terror Russian forces continue to kidnap Ukrainian local politicians, journalists and civic activists in all towns and cities since the beginning of Russia’s .Victims are feared tortured and possibly murdered. khpg.org/en/1608810316
The recently discovered Russian atrocities in Bucha, Ukraine spotlight Putin's inhumanity.
But the ongoing Russian brutal kidnapping and disappearance of around 30 Ukrainian local politicians, journalists and civic activists in all towns and cities since the beginning of Russia’s invasion has received virtually no attention in the Western media.
Russia has persecuted 36 local gvt officials, journalists, religious leaders, volunteers & civic activists on territories it occupied in Ukraine - @sosmaydan
Persecution = physical violence, kidnapping, arbitrary detentions, threats
ccl.org.ua/en/claims/euro…
Persecution = physical violence, kidnapping, arbitrary detentions, threats
ccl.org.ua/en/claims/euro…
Some Ukrainian mayors resisting Russian occupation of their cities are already killed - Zelenskyy to @TheEconomist
“They are kidnapping mayors of our cities. They killed some of them. Some of them we can’t find. Some of them we found & they are dead."
economist.com/europe/volodym…
“They are kidnapping mayors of our cities. They killed some of them. Some of them we can’t find. Some of them we found & they are dead."
economist.com/europe/volodym…
.@zminaUA launches campaign #TheTaken to draw attention to >30 Ukrainian journalists, gvt officials & activists Russia kidnapped during war
"Russia aims to terrorise the people of Ukraine into submission. They must not be allowed to continue"
zmina.ua/en/event-en/th…
"Russia aims to terrorise the people of Ukraine into submission. They must not be allowed to continue"
zmina.ua/en/event-en/th…
