The NGO Reporters Sans Frontières announced Monday May 5 that it has exfiltrated journalist Ekaterina Barabach, opposed to the Russian regime, to France.
Ekaterina Barabach fled Russia where she is wanted for the dissemination of “false information” on the army and risks ten years in prison. Helped by the NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF), she left her native country and her 96 -year -old mother. “I fled, I had no more choice. Journalism no longer exists in Russia, “she said this Monday, May 5, since the headquarters of RSF in Paris where she thanked her support. “It is an immense relief and an immense pleasure of having it healthy and saved among us in Paris,” added the director general of the association, Thibaut Bruttin.
Ekaterina Barabach, 64, is a Russian journalist and film critic. Born in Kharkiv under the USSR (today in Ukraine), she had criticized with virulence in 2022, the large -scale invasion of Russia on her Ukrainian neighbor.
“Then bunch of bastards, you have bombed [l’Ukraine]shaved whole cities, killed a hundred children, shot dead from peaceful people, maintained Marioupol under blockade, deprived millions of people of a normal life, forced to go abroad? “She said in a Facebook publication.
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The Russian federal prison service announced on April 21 that Ekaterina Barabach was …