Ukrainian activist Iryna Horobtsova, who has brain aneurysm, denied treatment at Simferopol pre-trial detention center No. 1
Iryna Horobtsova, a Ukrainian activist and volunteer from Kherson who was sentenced to ten and a half years in prison on “espionage” charges in August 2024, has reported severe health issues and lack of medical care in her detention facility.
Iryna HorobtsovaBy way of background, after two years of illegal detention, in August 2024 the occupying Russian authorities convicted Iryna Horobtsova on charges of “espionage” in favor of Ukraine. The woman was sentenced to ten and a half years in a strict regime penal colony. The woman met her lawyer, Emil Kurbedinov, for the first time only in “court”, as the Russians classified the case and did not allow a defender to see her.
Russian FSB forces abducted Horobtsova from her home on May 13, 2022. Initially, she was held in the Kherson pre-trial detention center, where she was seen by Oleksandr Babych, the mayor of Hola Prystan. Since May 25, 2022, the woman has been held in Simferopol detention center No. 1.
Before the full-scale invasion, Horobtsova worked as an engineer in Ukrainian IT companies. She is known for her posts about life in occupied Kherson. She published photos with Ukrainian symbols, and called her apartment the “home headquarters of the resistance.” On May 11, 2022, Iryna Horobtsova made her last update on her Facebook page with a demand for the extradition of Azov fighters blocked at the plant in Mariupol.
Last year, ZMINA published a list of 21 people whose lives and health are at risk due to the lack of medical care in Russian imprisonment.
