Father of citizen journalist Iryna Danylovych dies in Crimea
Today, August 1, Bronislav Danylovych, the father of the citizen journalist Iryna Danylovych, who has been imprisoned by Russia, passed away in occupied Crimea aged 78, reports the human rights activist Lutfiye Zudieva to "Suspilne Crimea".
Bronislav Danylovych was a cancer patient. The funeral for the political prisoner's father will take place on August 2.
The media outlet reminds that in April of this year, Bronislav Danylovych had told them why the occupiers began persecuting his daughter Iryna Danylovych, how her relatives remember her, what caused her hearing loss and how she stays in touch with her relatives.
Iryna Danylovych's case
Iryna Danylovych was detained on April 29, 2022, in the occupied Crimea. She was detained on her way from work on the road from Koktebel to Feodosia. Her house in Vladislavivka village was searched, her phone and laptop were seized.
Iryna Danylovych worked as a nurse, and was also a citizen journalist, covering the healt care workers' rights and problems of the health care system in Crimea.
On June 29, 2023, it was reported that the Russian-backed Supreme Court of Crimea changed the ruling in the case of Iryna Danylovych, who had been previously sentenced to seven years in prison on charges of storing an explosive device.
On November 2, 2023, it was reported that Iryna Danylovych had suffered a stroke while still in the Simferopol PTDC.
In August Iryna Danylovych's father, Bronyslav Danylovych, said that she had lost all hearing in her left ear and is receiving no medical assistance.
Earlier, she had been moved to a prison in Zelenokumsk, Stavropol region, Russia. In November 2023 Iryna's father reported that the prison is terribly unsanitary.
As the IMI reported, the human rights organization ZMINA says (citing the findings of independent experts) that an independent analysis of the medical examination provided to the Crimean citizen journalist Iryna Danylovych, who has been imprisoned by Russia, revealed that she suffers from acute otitis media, has neurological disorders and brain damage, and may have suffered a stroke as well.
In February 2024 it was reported that Crimean citizen journalist Iryna Danylovych is being deprived of the opportunity to take her medicine in the Russian prison. Without the medicine she suffers severe headaches and earaches.
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