Posted on 01/18/2024 10:07:29 AM PST by Kazan
The Kiev regime has been given free rein to do whatever it wants by the West and “is even allowed to torture and kill Americans,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov charged, referring to the death of US YouTuber Gonzalo Lira in Ukrainian Prison. Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova charged the United States with “consigning an inconvenient journalist to execution.”
“Kiev has unbridled freedom, and this permissiveness is manifested in everything it does. This free rein only leads to disaster. And this disaster has already reached the minds of the current Ukrainian regime, and they are leading their entire country there,” the Russian Foreign Minister said at an annual news conference devoted to reviewing Moscow’s foreign policy in 2023.
Referring to the death of American journalist and blogger Gonzalo Lira in Ukrainian prison, Lavrov said the Kiev regime “is even allowed to torture and kill Americans. And everyone keeps their mouths shut. (The Ukrainians) are allowed to do anything. Look at the fuss they make when their citizens are arrested. Here, not a word, not even a whisper. Draw your own conclusions,” Lavrov said.
Speaking to the media on Jan. 15, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova charged that Gonzalo Lira’s death “vividly revealed the face of the collective West.”
Reporter: On January 12, the world media reported the death of Gonzalo Angel Quintilio Lira López in a Ukrainian prison. He was an American journalist, film director, and video blogger and had Chilean citizenship as well. What can you say about this tragedy?
Maria Zakharova: First, I would like to draw your attention to this truly unprecedented situation. Gonzalo Lira was a national of both the US and Chile, but these countries preferred to leave him without attention and support from the moment of his arrest by the Security Service of Ukraine.
They essentially consigned this “inconvenient” journalist to execution. Santiago (de Chile) has done all it could to hush up this issue even when his tragic death became public. For many months before, the Chilean authorities ignored the repeated appeals of international and local human rights activists not to abandon him by shifting responsibility for his fate to the US Department of State.
What were American officials and relevant organizations doing the whole time? When they find it advantageous, they immediately rush to defend supposedly oppressed journalists. This is what happened with Evan Gershkovich who was caught red-handed while collecting classified information on instruction from the US authorities, and the American reporter Stavros Niarchos detained in July 2022 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
In the meantime, the reasons for the blatant disregard for the journalist by the US and Chilean authorities that refused to defend him and did not even note his death in a Ukrainian prison are obvious to all those that followed without bias the fate of this courageous man.
In May 2023, it became known that the blogger was detained and accused under the article “Justification, defence as legal and/or denial of Russia’s armed aggression against Ukraine and glorification of its participants.” After posting bail, he was put under house arrest. But soon thereafter, in July 2023, the Security Service of Ukraine placed him in a pre-trial detention centre, ostensibly for “violating the law and attempting to evade justice.”
He stayed there until his death after eight months of torture and lack of proper medical care. Obviously, the journalist’s refusal to follow the American mainstream and Washington’s line could not go unpunished. But in his case, the punishment was truly inhuman and literally murderous
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The tragedy of Gonzalo Lira, who dared have his own opinion, has vividly revealed again the face of the collective West. A zealous advocate of speech and press freedom in word, it defends them in deed only when convenient to its interests.
We are urging Gonzalo Lira’s colleagues to raise their voice in defense of the prisoners of the Kiev regime. This is necessary for those that are still alive and can still fight for the truth. It is also a tribute to the memory of those that died as martyrs for the cause of freedom.
We would like to convey our most sincere condolences to Gonzalo Lira’s family and friends.
He ain’t wrong
And yet there remains a contingency on FR that seems to support Ukraine to the bitter end. Putin is no sweetheart, but I believe he is in the right on this matter. There is something rotten in Ukraine, and Biden knows it.
I certainly hope the Ruskies don’t bring up that embarrassing DC J6 gulag.
more Russian propaganda
who the hell is that murderous thug Putin to lecture anybody about torturing & killing people?!
They're probably keeping that in their back pocket for the next time Biden or someone else makes lectures about human rights re: Russia (and Russia, especially of the Soviet era, has plenty to atone for).
I'm sure the CCP is doing the same.
As a side note: notice how the Democrats and mockingbirds aren't caterwauling about human rights lately? I suspect they want to keep the J6ers as forgotten as possible.
True.
Actually, goes beyond keeping their mouths shut. They smear the victim *looking squarely at the Zeeper freaks*.
Oh yes!
As the famous PT Barnum said.......
There's a fool born every minute!
Sadly they abound around these parts, too. Maybe they'll follow Nikki Haley into oblivion.
Lavrov speaks the truth. Ukraine is telling biden what to do because they are blackmailing him and biden hasn’t paid them enough yet.
LOL the guy was an America-hating Chilean Communist who happened to have American citizenship. He was cheerleader for the Russian invasion, yet the Ukrainians allowed him to live there and continue his Russian propaganda efforts for months before he was arrested. He contracts pneumonia and dies in prison.
How long would some British fascist living in the US have been allowed to propagandize on behalf of Germany in 1942? As the American diplomat tells the American parents of a leftist American journalist who has disappeared in Chile after the coup: "Play with fire, get burned."
And like clockwork....
They'd murder Lira in a heartbeat.
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” - George Orwell
Let me fix that for you.
...who the hell is that murderous thug Putin Zelensky the homoclown to lecture anybody about torturing & killing people?!
You know, that thug that cut his country's population in half and is directly responsible for killing or injuring 500,000 of his young soldiers after passing on a peace deal very early in the SMO.
That, there is one big fool!
GL was a piece of work - no loss - world loses on more piece of scum: SPJNK
Let me get this straight - this Chilean guy makes a career out of procuring poor Eastern European women to rich exploitive assholes, then when the war starts starts peddling Russian propaganda.
He’s warned that his actions are illegal. He continues regardless, and somos charged, convicted, and sentenced to house arrest.
He tries to flee to Hungary, catches pneumonia, and dies in hospital.
And somehow, this constitutes torture and abuse?
True, it is the standard Marxist Democrat, Alinsky method.
Of course it is also Projection, they accuse Lira of everything they have already done.
Betcha that little con man twerp reeeeeealllly enjoyed the Bunga Bunga Parties in Davos.
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