![]() This is why this regime has to come down. It will do all the possible - carry out all the possible crimes against its own population. It will accompany this war of aggression by genocide. It will try to erase Ukraine from the face of the earth. This is a regime that held over 300 political prisoners even before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. ![]() He's been behind bars for 20 years, in violation of two decisions of the European Court of Human Rights and several demands by the Committee of Ministers for his immediate release. This is a regime that holds - the longest-serving Russian political prisoner is Alexey Pichugin. It has already carried out acts of aggression against our neighbors in Georgia and in Ukraine in 2014 by annexing Crimea. This regime has already committed war crimes in Chechnya and in Syria. This is a regime that has been committing those kinds of crimes, including war crimes, for years. Well, this is a regime that does not value human life, has never valued human life. Kara-Murza was saying, real potential for a very long prison sentence. ![]() administration has been really clear: No Americans should be in Russia right now, due to the threat of arbitrary detention, or worse.Īnd now you have something that looks much worse, which is espionage charges that carry with them, as Ms. At the beginning of the war, everyone left. In this instance, a small number of Western journalists have gone back or gone in and out since the war began. And we always need to be really careful not to assume that what the Russians are saying is true. Does - does his detention read to you like a stepped-up effort on the part of the Russians to target Americans, with the end goal of a prisoner swap?Īndrew Weiss, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: It's really hard to speculate at this point, given how few concrete facts have been released. The White House national security spokesperson, John Kirby, said the administration had no advance awareness of a new Russian effort to target American journalists. He will continue to oppose this regime, as he has been doing for all these years.Īnd, yes, the accusations against him include the dissemination of knowingly false information about the war in Ukraine, or, in other words, denouncing the war crimes committed by the Russian army on the territory of Ukraine and calling for the creation of a tribunal, Nuremberg-style tribunal, to prosecute all those responsible, and high treason, as you mentioned, for public speeches that he made on different international platforms, in which he denounced the regime, talked about political persecution in Russia and the ever-growing number of political prisoners in the Russian Federation.Īndrew Weiss, the Biden White House today condemned the detention of the American Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich for what Moscow described as espionage. The entire trial is happening behind closed doors, because, of course, the Russian authorities are afraid to give him a platform, even if it is a courtroom, to speak. Twice, he's been poisoned.Įverything in my husband's case, as you said, is happening behind closed doors. He is a longtime Kremlin critic and target. Since the invasion, the human rights organization OVD-Info says police have detained nearly 20,000 for criticizing the war, among them, opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza. She wrote a letter: "Please don't worry about me. ![]() But the daughter has been trying to comfort the father. She was forced to an orphanage and he faces two years in prison. ![]() Russian authorities investigated him after his daughter made this school drawing: "Glory to Ukraine. This week, single father Alexei Moskalyov face punishment for questioning the war on social media. The Committee to Protect Journalists as at least seven Russian journalists have been arrested and charged since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. called a sham.īut in today's Russia, it is Russians who are most often targeted. A Russian court convicted him on espionage charges that Whelan and the U.S. Today, Russia holds another American, former Marine Paul Whelan, arrested in December 2018. ![]()
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