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• September 14, 2026

  15 Years for a Retired Journalist: What the Levchenko Verdict Breaks in the Geneva Conventions

  Iryna Levchenko was detained on a street in occupied Melitopol on 6 May 2023, shortly after photographing her own city. Her husband was released fifteen months later; she was not. Three years of transfers between Donetsk, Mariupol, Simferopol and Krasnodar, a charge her family learned of only in the third year, a closed trial her own lawyer could not fully access — and fifteen years. An analysis of what this case breaks in the Fourth Geneva Convention.