Mother and daughter abducted by occupants in Crimea found in pre-trial detention center

A pensioner and her daughter, abducted at the beginning of the year in the Pervomaisky (now Kurmansky) district of Crimea, were transferred to SIZO-1 in occupied Simferopol.

This was reported by the Voice of Crimea.

Probably, it is Anna and Oksana Sotsenko. The women were kidnapped at the beginning of the year after a search conducted by the FSB in their apartment. After their detention, they were taken to an unknown destination and held in complete isolation for a long time - there was no information about their fate for nine months. Now both have been transferred to SIZO-1 in occupied Simferopol and charged with 'treason'.

According to the channel, Oksana Sotsenko had a ten-year-old child with a disability, and her 70-year-old mother has a number of chronic diseases. Despite this, Russian security forces have isolated both women without access to communication and lawyers.

Human rights activists emphasize that since the start of the full-scale invasion, Russia has sharply increased the number of detentions of criminals on charges of espionage or 'cooperation with Ukrainian special services'. Often, these cases are accompanied by enforced disappearances, and trials are held entirely in secret, making it impossible to assess the evidence and legality of the security forces' actions.

"In the summer of 2025 alone, it became known about 17 detentions of criminals on charges of working for the Ukrainian special services," the Tribunal reported. Crimean Episode".

Earlier, the Chairman of the Board of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center and a member of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Eskender Bariev reported another case of enforced disappearance of a person on the temporarily occupied peninsula.

According to him, on October 2, 2025, in the village of Kyzyltash (occupation name - Krasnokamenka), Feodosia district, unidentified persons abducted 63-year-old Marat Batyrov. Witnesses said that the man was forcibly taken out of his apartment, then brought to his garage and taken in an unknown direction.

Since then, his relatives and friends have no information about his whereabouts. According to Bariiev, the so-called 'law enforcement agencies' of Crimea officially declare that Batyrov is not in any of the peninsula's pre-trial detention centers. His lawyer's written requests to the occupation police of Feodosia and the 'Ministry of Internal Affairs of Crimea' for his search have not been answered either.

Катерина Глушко