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Russian forces forcibly disappeared Iryna Horobtsova, a resident of Kherson, Ukraine, in May 2022, and are understood to have unlawfully transferred her to Russian-occupied Crimea, where they are holding her incommunicado, Human Rights Watch said today.
Russian forces occupied Kherson from March 2 to November 11, when Ukrainian forces re-established control over the city.
The UN mission located 76 places used by Russian forces or by the Russian Federation to detain civilians for conflict-related reasons, including four facilities in Crimea.


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Iryna Horobtsova Believed to be Held in Crimea, After Forcible Transfer
One family member said that on May 13, eleven men in Russian military uniforms, some wearing masks, arrived at the apartment in Kherson where she lived with her parents, retired physics teachers. Horobtsova was at home with her 75-year-old mother. Her father returned home shortly after.
Six men, who did not introduce themselves, searched the flat while the other five waited outside, near two cars marked with “Z,” the Russian government’s propaganda symbol of support for the war in Ukraine.
Russian forces confiscated three laptops and Horobtsova’s cell phone and told her family that she was being detained for questioning but that she would be home later that evening, her family said. Horobtsova left her apartment wearing light pajama pants and slippers.
When she did not return home the next day, her parents went to the Russian military command's office in Kherson. Officials there refused to confirm or deny whether Horobtsova was in their custody, and they refused to accept a care package her parents had brought for her. After that, the family made multiple inquiries for weeks at the office in Kherson but received no official updates. They also hired several lawyers in different areas of Ukraine to search for their loved one.

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An enforced disappearance occurs when a person is deprived of their liberty and authorities refuse to acknowledge the detention or to disclose the fate or whereabouts of the detainee, placing them beyond the protection of the law. In an armed conflict, this may amount to or involve multiple war crimes, and when an enforced disappearance occurs with the intention of removing the detainee from the protection of the law for a prolonged period of time, it is prosecutable as a crime against humanity under the International Criminal Court’s statute.