Russian journalist and film critic Ekaterina Barabach, who risked up to ten years in prison for denouncing the war in Ukraine, was exfiltrated from her country to France by Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF), the NGO announced on Monday at a press conference in its presence.
“Thank you all for your support,” said the journalist at RSF headquarters in Paris. She said she had to resolve to leave her 96 -year -old mother to carry out her Russian flight.
“It is an immense relief and an immense pleasure of having it healthy and saves among us in Paris,” added the director general of Reporters Sans Frontières, Thibaut Bruttin.
The Russian federal prison service announced on April 21 that Ms. Barabach, 64, was placed on the list of people wanted.
She had disappeared from her home on April 13, when she was under house arrest as part of an investigation for disseminating “false information” on the Russian army. This measure had been ordered by a Moscow court after the arrest of Ms. Barabach at the end of February.
The journalist, born in Kharkiv under the USSR in present -day Ukraine), had virledly criticized the offensive of Russia led to her Ukrainian neighbor since February 2022.
“So, a bunch of bastards, you bombed (Ukraine), shaved from whole cities, killed a hundred children, shot dead from peaceful people, maintained Marioupol under blockade, deprived of millions of people of a normal life, forced to go abroad?”, She said in a publication cited by the independent media MEDUZA.
She risked up to ten years in prison.
In October 2022, RSF had already organized the escape of another Russian journalist, Marina Ovsiannikova, who incurred ten years in prison after having brandished an anti-war sign on state television.
