The Russian journalist and film critic Ekaterina Barabach, who risked up to ten years in prison for denouncing the war in Ukraine, was exfiltrated from his country to France by journalists without Frontières (RSF), announced the NGO at a press conference in its presence on Monday, May 5.
“Thank you all for your support,” said the journalist at the RSF headquarters in Paris. She said she had to resolve to her 96 -year -old mother to carry out her Russian flight.
It is an immense relief and immense pleasure of having healthy and saved among us in Paris, “added the general director of Reporters without Frontières, Thibaut Bruttin.
Criticism of Russian invasion in Ukraine
The Federal Prison Service of Russia announced on April 21 that Ekaterina Barabach, 64, was placed on the list of people sought. He had disappeared from his home on April 13, when he was under house arrest as part of an investigation to disseminate “false information” about the Russian army. This measure had been ordered by a Moscow court after the arrest of Ekaterina Barabach at the end of February.
The journalist, born in Kharkiv under the USSR (in current Ukraine), had virosly criticized Russia’s offensive directed with his Ukrainian neighbor since February 2022. Then, a lot of bastards of a normal life, which goes to a normal life, which cited one hundred children, one hundred of one hundred children, of people who complied with people, of a normal life, forced to the normal life. by independent media. She risked up to ten years in prison.
In October 2022, RSF had already organized the escape of another Russian journalist, Marina Ovsiannikova, who faced ten years in prison after having shown a sign against the war on state television.
Source: BFM TV
