US journalist Gonzalo Lira is being imprisoned and probably tortured in Ukraine for the crime of criticizing the federal government. His father charged the Biden Regime with “complicity, or at least tacit approval” of Lira’s custody. The US Embassy in Kiev has up to now declined to remark.

Gonzalo Lira grew to become well-known as a YouTuber “Coach Red Pill” 2017, within the first heyday of MAGA YouTube, earlier than leaving the USA for Kharkiv, Ukraine finish of 2021, the place he occurred to finish up in the midst of the Russian invasion.

When Russia attacked February 24, 2022, Gonzalo Lira occurred to be in Kiev, staying on the Resort the place quite a few Western journalists congregated. He grew to become one of many very first critics of Western technique in Ukraine, calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “evil” and trolling Western correspondents as “system pigs.”

On Might 5, 2023, Ukraine’s infamous SBU safety service introduced they’d arrested Gonzalo Lira, calling him “Moscow-aligned” and accusing him “of denying Russian war crimes and insulting Ukrainian troops,” New Voice of Ukraine reported.

Lira was accused of “denying Russian war crimes” and “justifying Russian aggression,” claiming that Ukraine was “shelling its own territory” and that “a neo-Nazi regime ruled the country.”

“Such activities constitute a criminal offense under Article 436-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (justification, recognition as lawful, denial of Russia’s armed aggression against Ukraine, glorification of its participants)”, New Voice of Ukraine wrote: The SBU safety service “documented Lira’s activities and served the blogger with a notice of suspicion.”

“In May 2023, the court imposed on him a preventive measure in the form of detention with the possibility of bail. He was initially released on house arrest after posting the bail, but was arrested again in July when he attempted to cross the border into Hungary on his motorcycle,” New Voice of Ukraine writes.

On July 31, 2023, Gonzalo Lira posted three videos wherein he claimed he had spent “9 ½ weeks in prison” and had been out on bail since July 6. He additionally posted a Twitter thread containing the fees in opposition to him, saying he was because of stand trial on August 2nd.

Proper now, I’m about to attempt to get out of Ukraine, and search political asylum in Hungary.

Both I’ll cross the border and make it to security, or I’ll be disappeared by the Kiev regime.

That is what’s occurred to me over the previous three months.

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— Gonzalo Lira (@GonzaloLira1968) July 31, 2023

He was charged with the “manufacturing and distribution of supplies containing the justification, recognition as professional, denial of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation in opposition to Ukraine, which started in 2014, together with by presenting the armed aggression of the Russian Federation in opposition to Ukraine as an inside battle, justifying, recognizing as professional the momentary occupation of a part of the territory of Ukraine.

The penalty Lira faces is “5 to 8 years in a prison labor camp”, he stated, noting he’s 55 and has a “fairly serious heart condition: I’m not gonna survive 5 to 8 years.”

As soon as inside Sizo pretrial investigation jail (oLukyanivska Jail in Kiev), Lira stated he was initially not allowed to put up bail. He spoke to representatives of the US State Division thrice through the 9 weeks he was there, he stated. “They made no effort to pull me out. If I’d been a black lesbian druggie or a transgender grifter, I would’ve been out instantly,” Lira stated.

Sources informed him Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland “hates my guts,” Lira claimed.

Lira stated he was “tortured in two of the four cells I was in—by the other prisoners. Guards NEVER beat prisoners—they outsource torture to the other prisoners. One prisoner actually apologized to me, telling me he had no choice. He wasn’t lying. I understood.”

“I bought a cracked rib in my first cell, however it wasn’t too dangerous. The worst stretch was in my fourth cell. From 1 pm on June 21 till 7 pm the following day—30 hours—I used to be overwhelmed and sleep disadvantaged, my arms twisted the unsuitable approach round on the shoulders, and usually overwhelmed fairly dangerous,“ Lira posted.

Two inmates held his head, and “one of them used a toothpick to scratch the whites of my left eye”, Lira stated, “and the other said, ‘You can read with just one eye, right?’ That really freaked me out.”

Close to the tip of this session, one of many thugs struck me within the chest so arduous and so repetitively that the beating left a yellow-and-green splotch dead-center on my sternum.

He was >berated< by the cell boss, as a result of he’d left a mark on me—which was a no-no.

>Perceptions<

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— Gonzalo Lira (@GonzaloLira1968) July 31, 2023

He was ultimately allowed to put up bail, Lira stated on July 31, however needed to give up his paperwork, put on an ankle monitor, and wasn’t allowed to go away the embattled metropolis of Kharkov. In addition they confiscated all of his digital units and $9000 in emergency money, Lira stated.

Then as luck would have it, two days later—when the bruising was in full bloom—a senior guard got here to provide me a wellness test!

This was doubtless due to the Chilean embassy efforts.

The US embassy referred to as me thrice, however gave me nothing however “support”—empty bromides.

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— Gonzalo Lira (@GonzaloLira1968) July 31, 2023

When an SBU officed returned his paperwork and was not required to put on his ankle monitor, Lira took this as a tacit nudge from the Ukrainian officers to go away the nation, which he then tried to do.

Later on the SBU workplaces, they >returned different paperwork< they’d confiscated—my driver’s license and my motorbike registration.

In Sizo, I informed an inmate how final 12 months I’d been detained, launched, however informed to not depart Ukraine. He laughed. “They were telling you to leave!”

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— Gonzalo Lira (@GonzaloLira1968) July 31, 2023

“I rode my motorcycle across Ukraine—1,400 kms in two days. I’m going to Hungary to ask for political asylum,” he posted on August 1.

That was the final that has been heard from him.

“Lira is currently being held in the Kharkiv pretrial detention center. His court hearing is scheduled for December 12 and December 21”, New Voice of Ukraine wrote on Dec.10.

Tucker Carlson spoke to Gonzalo Lira’s father, as Gateway Pundit reported, who stated he had not heard from his son, who has been in jail for 7 months with out trial, and charged the State Division with complicity.

Ep. 47 Gonzalo Lira is an American citizen who’s been tortured in a Ukrainian jail since July, for the crime of criticizing Zelensky. Biden officers approve of this, as a result of they’d like to use the identical customary right here. The media agree. Right here’s a press release from Gonzalo Lira’s… pic.twitter.com/4H2otHhYHi

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) December 9, 2023

“He was assigned a Ukrainian attorney who doesn’t speak English,” Gonzalo Lira Sr. stated.

The US Embassy in Ukraine “hasn’t done a thing,” Gonzalo Lira Sr. charged. “Neither I nor his sister living in the USA have been able to communicate” with Lira, his father stated. “The Embassy by no means visited him besides

“An American citizen is in jail because he was exercising his right of freedom of speech,” Lira Sr. stated. “The US government’s silence suggests a degree of complicity, or at least tacit approval of Gonzalo’s arrest since nothing else convincingly explains the conspicuous lack of response.”

“Last April 27 of this year, Gonzalo posted a video heavily criticizing Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Four days later, the Zelensky police detained Gonzalo,” his father famous. “Why was he not detained earlier?”

“Did the State Department give the green light to Zelensky to put my son in jail?” Gonzalo Lira Sr. requested.

An American citizen is in jail n Ukraine after we despatched over a $100 billion?

Is there extra to this story than merely criticizing Zelensky?

If that’s all it’s, then we now have significant issue right here.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 9, 2023

Ukrainian legislation enforcement’s actions have been “carried out in accordance with the law,” the Safety Service (SBU) informed New Voice of Ukraine.

Gateway Pundit has despatched inquiries to the US Embassy in Kiev, the State Division, and the Ukrainian SBU. We are going to replace with any reply we obtain.