As the human rights organization "Crimea SOS" reports, on November 24, the woman was taken from pre-trial detention center No. 1 in the city of Simferopol to the occupation headquarters of the FSB in Crimea. There she was interrogated on a polygraph. At the same time, no suspicions or accusations were brought against her.
Iryna Horobtsova was forcibly taken from her parents' home in Kherson by armed russian soldiers on May 13.
She was allegedly accused of "correcting the fire at the airport in Chornobayivka".
Taking hostages is an act of terrorism under the Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism and a war crime under Article 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
I appeal to the UN Commission for the Investigation of Human Rights Violations during the russian military invasion of Ukraine to take into account these facts of russian crimes and violations of human rights in Ukraine.
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