Critique of the invasion in Ukraine, a Russian journalist exfiltrated in France by RSF

Russian journalist and film critic Ekaterina Barabach was exfiltrated from her country to France by Reporters Without Borders, the NGO announced at a press conference on Monday in its presence. “Thank you all for your support”she said from the headquarters of RSF 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 Without Borders, Thibaut Bruttin.

Investigation for disseminating “false information” on the Russian army

The Russian federal prison service announced on April 21 that Ekaterina 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. A measure ordered by a Moscow court after his arrest 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 in whole cities, killed a hundred children, shot dead, maintained Marioupol under blockade, deprived millions of people of a normal life, forced to go abroad?”she had indicated in a publication, quoted by the independent media MEDUZA.

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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. Ekaterina Barabach also risked up to ten years in prison.