Journalists have discovered the small print of the detention of the deceased journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna in Russian captivity in Taganrog Detention Centre No. 2.
Supply: Ukrainska Pravda article, Challenge Viktoriia: Story of captivity and torture skilled by journalist Roshchyna and hundreds of Ukrainians imprisoned by Russia (English translation coming quickly)
Particulars: In the beginning of 2024, Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna was transferred to pre-trial detention centre No. 2 in Taganrog.
The journalist’s father contacted the Worldwide Committee of the Pink Cross. They confirmed that Viktoriia was in captivity however reported that they’d no entry to her.
In Could, one of many launched Ukrainian prisoners informed UP journalists that she had personally seen Viktoriia within the Taganrog detention centre.
She stated that they have been fed rotten potatoes. On account of malnutrition, Viktoriia started to drop some pounds quickly. The witness stated that later, the guards compelled Viktoriia to eat.
Viktoriia’s father stated that in August 2024, she was briefly transferred to hospital attributable to vital exhaustion. After her hospitalisation, she was returned to the detention centre, however this time to solitary confinement.
One of many former inmates informed the UP that when she returned from the hospital, Viktoriia had a catheter on her arm, and the administration started to organize her separate meals. He additionally famous that jail employees requested different girls what sort of meals she may eat.
Viktoriia’s father recalled that in August he spoke to his daughter by telephone. Representatives of Ukraine’s Coordination Headquarters for the Therapy of Prisoners of Conflict had requested him to steer Viktoriia to finish her starvation strike.
"I stated: 'Darling, you must eat, they promised to launch you'. And he or she replied: 'Sure, I’m consuming, I swear'," he informed reporters.
The UP sources in Defence Intelligence of Ukraine and amongst Russian negotiators stated that Viktoriia was deliberate to be exchanged in September 2024. On 8 September, she was taken out of her cell to organize for her return to Ukraine. Nevertheless, the change didn’t happen.
One of many witnesses within the detention centre informed journalists that he noticed Viktoriia being taken out: "We requested a woman from the cell to assist her down. She helped her down. After that, a guard got here and stated that the journalist had not been taken to the change. He added: "It was her personal fault"."
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Background:
- Viktoriia Roshchyna left Ukraine for Poland on 25 July 2023 to journey to the occupied territory. She deliberate to achieve the occupied a part of Ukraine's east by way of Russia in three days.
- Roshchyna disappeared on 3 August 2023 within the TOT from the place she was reporting.
- Russia admitted for the primary time in Could 2024 that they’d detained Roshchyna. The Russian Ministry of Defence despatched a letter of affirmation to her father, Volodymyr Roshchyn.
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