Iryna Dovhan, Date of Birth

    

Iryna Dovhan

Ukrainian torture victim

Date of Birth: 25-Jan-1962

Profession: military personnel

Nationality: Ukraine

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Iryna Dovhan

  • Iryna Dovhan (Ukrainian: ????? ????????????? ???????; born 25 January 1962) and a native of Yasynuvata (a Donetsk suburb), who was abducted in 2014 by pro-Russian insurgents of the Vostok Battalion.
  • She says that she was beaten and humiliated for five days.
  • According to her testimony, she was held in jail and interrogated before being handed over to mercenaries, apparently from North Ossetia, who subjected her to torture, calling her a fascist and forcing her to shout "Sieg Heil", repeatedly shooting pistols next to her ears and threatening to rape her.
  • She was freed on August 28 after, Mark Franchetti, a reporter for the British newspaper The Sunday Times, and Dmitry Beliakov, a Russian freelance photographer, pleaded with leader Alexander Khodakovsky to release her.
  • Khodakovsky ordered Iryna Dovhan freed and vowed to discipline those responsible for her detention and public humiliation.
  • She has since left Donetsk and joined her family in Mariupol, a city controlled by Ukrainian forces.

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