What is it like to come back to life after a long captivity? What does a woman feel after three years of detention in a cramped, smelly and sunless cell next to murderers, drug addicts, swindlers, and thieves? How can we now learn to move more than seven paces, because our movement in prison was limited to only seven paces forward, the same seven backwards and half an hour a day? And how to force your still shriveled and poisoned lungs to breathe deeply, because the round-the-clock stench of tobacco simply constricted the throat and every breath tore open the bronchi with pain?
There is life even after captivity!
18 листопада 2022
There is life even after captivity!
Of course, family and friends are now doing everything possible and even impossible to bring us back to life, and volunteers are trying to help solve even the smallest household problems. Many thanks to everyone who cares! But only those people who have experienced the same things can fully and completely understand what it was like there, in captivity, and what trials they had to go through, at what cost they had to survive.
I was very lucky that among those who not only waited but also did a lot for the release of Ukrainian prisoners from captivity, was Iryna Dovhan, one of the founders and leaders of the public organization SEMA Ukraine, which unites women victims of sexual and gender-based violence during illegal detention by the occupiers. The acquaintance with the women who united in a public organization took place in the village of Zhdeniievo, Volovetska district, Zakarpattia region.
