How to Pronounce Iryna Dovhan
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Jan 25, 1962 62 years old
Ukrainian torture victim
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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.
