This is a recent posting from Gonzalo Liraâs Twitter account, a link that was provided by Alex. Needless to say, its pretty fked up what he is reporting.
The question I have in the case of Gonzaloâs predicament is how is he going to get past the check point that is past the Ukrainian border and into Hungary without anyone knowing who he is?
Right now, Iâm about to try to get out of Ukraine, and seek political asylum in Hungary.
Either Iâll cross the border and make it to safety, or Iâll be disappeared by the Kiev regime.
This is whatâs happened to me over the past three months.
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On May 1, I was arrested for my YouTube videos. The photos of my arrest are pretty funnyâmorning bed-head made me look like a character out of Dr. Seuss.
My crime was making videos critical of the West and their proxy regime in Kievâand how they are destroying Ukraine.
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Attached to these tweets is the full indictment against me, both the original Ukrainian and English translation.
As you can see, even the prosecutor admits I committed no crime against property or any person. And I certainly provided no aid or intelligence to the Russians.
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My indictment explicitly states that all I did was discuss publicly known facts about the warâthe epitome of free speech in a democracy.
But Zelenskyâs Ukraine is no democracyâit is a thieving, corrupt, murderous gangster regime PRETENDING to be a polite âwesternâ democracy.
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Once arrested, I was given documentation assuring me that I was âguaranteed the rightâ to contact my lawyers and loved ones, as well as post bail.
In fact, I was blocked from calling anyoneâeven my lawyers. And I was not permitted to post bailâthough I had the cash to do so.
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In other words, the formalities were carried out scrupulouslyâwhile judicial and ethical grotesqueries ruled.
Thatâs Zelenskyâs Ukraine. Thatâs what his thuggish regime cares about: The >perception< of democracy and the rule of law, so as to mask the sordid, corrupt reality.
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Thatâs why they relentlessly persecute anyone who tells the truth about this war. Iâm not the only so-called âpropagandistâ the Kiev regime has thrown in prison.
Itâs also why they shoot any AFU soldier who dares retreat. Thatâs why the AFU losses are so horrificâbut hidden.
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As you can see by the indictment, the video I made that really chapped their ass was âUkraine: A Primerâ, which gives the historical background to the conflictâwhere I state outright that this invasion wasnât out of the blue. That indeed, it was provoked by the Kiev regime.
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Once inside Sizo Prison, I was tortured in two of the four cells I was inâby the other prisoners. Guards NEVER beat prisonersâthey outsource torture to the other prisoners.
One prisoner actually apologized to me, telling me he had no choice. He wasnât lying. I understood.
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I got a cracked rib in my first cell, but it wasnât too bad. The worst stretch was in my fourth cell.
From 1pm on June 21 until 7pm the next dayâ30 hoursâI was beaten and sleep deprived, my arms twisted the wrong way around at the shoulders, and generally beaten pretty bad.
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Iâve taken a beating in my time. So sure, it hurt like hell, but it was manageableâbut then at one point, two thugs held my head and used a toothpick to scratch the whites of my left eye, while asking me if I could still read if I had just one.
ngl, >that< was unnerving.
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Near the end of this session, one of the thugs struck me in the chest so hard and so repetitively that the beating left a yellow-and-green splotch dead-center on my sternum.
He was >berated< by the cell boss, because heâd left a mark on meâwhich was a no-no.
Perceptions<
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Then as luck would have it, two days laterâwhen the bruising was in full bloomâa senior guard came to give me a wellness check!
This was likely because of the Chilean embassy efforts.
The US embassy called me three times, but gave me nothing but âsupportââempty bromides.
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The guard told me to remove my shirt so he could look me over. The bruising was really spectacularâbut he just nodded and pretended he didnât see a thing.
Perceptions< Heâd checked me, right?
Why was I beaten to the point of torture? Wellâit wasnât over my YouTube videos!
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I was imprisoned because of my videosâno doubt. The videos are why the SBU arrested me and put me in Sizo Prison without bail.
But as they investigated meâand examined my computers and accounts, all of which they confiscated and openedâthe SBU realized that Iâm not poor.
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So once they had me imprisoned for my videos, the SBU took the opportunity to extort money from meâusing the guards as accomplices, who in turn used the prisoners as the muscle.
How I discovered this is too complicated for a Twitter thread. But Iâm writing a book about it.
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All told, they extorted USD$70,000 out of me, and split it among themselves. They also took another $9k when they arrested me (my emergency cash). And another 11 grand, which was the bail money.
With the computers, iPhone, etc., Iâm out an even 100k on this adventure.
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Iâm never seeing any of that back, not even the bail moneyâbecause Iâve decided to leave Ukraine before my trial.
My trial is on Wednesday August 2âand Iâve already been told: I WILL be found guilty.
My sentence will be five to eight years in a prison labor camp.
Yeah.
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But hereâs the thing: The conditions of my bail are that I have to wear an electronic monitor, surrender my passports, and not leave the city of Kharkov, much less the country.
HOWEVERâafter posting bail, I >didnât< get an ankle monitorâand they >returned< my passports.
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Later at the SBU offices, they >returned other documents< theyâd confiscatedâmy driverâs license and my motorcycle registration.
In Sizo, I told an inmate how last year Iâd been detained, released, but told not to leave Ukraine. He laughed. âThey were telling you to leave!â
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This time, it looks like the same is happening: Theyâre telling me not to leaveâbut leaving the door open.
Or so I hope.
Or maybe Iâm being set up by them so they can justify putting me away in a labor campâso no one will ever know about their sordid extortion scheme.
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I simply donât know. So I decided to die trying.
I rode my motorcycle across Ukraineâ1,400 kms in two days.
Iâm going to Hungary to ask for political asylum.
When I fail to show up in court in Kharkov, an arrest warrant will be issued, likely an international warrant.
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No doubt other EU countries will comply like sheep, returning me to serve five to eight years in a prison labor campâ
âregardless of the fact that Kiev arrested and imprisoned me for >YouTube videos!<
For free speech!
What happened to âEuropean democratic values?
lol
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And the US State Department would return me too. Iâm not a black lesbian druggie, or a transgender grifter. Besides, Victoria Nuland hates my guts, or so Iâm told.
Iâm hoping the Hungarians will read my indictment and say, âThis is bullshitâweâre not sending him back.â
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Iâm posting this thread just as Iâm getting to the border checkpoint. Iâm also posting videos on the two channels I have access to, The Roundtable and Gonzalo LiraâAgain.
If you donât hear from me in the next 12 hoursâwhelp! Iâm on my way to a labor camp!
Wish me luck.
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