by Collin McMahon, The Gateway Pundit:
Judicial Watch has obtained part of the State Department communications relating to the imprisonment and death of US-Chilean YouTuber Gonzalo Lira in Ukraine for criticizing the war and the U.S. and Ukraine governments, as The Gateway Pundit reported.
Today: How the U.S. Embassy in Kiev stonewalled Gonzalo Lira’s father’s desperate pleas for help and then scrambled to cover their a** after his death.
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Ep. 47 Gonzalo Lira is an American citizen who’s been tortured in a Ukrainian prison since July, for the crime of criticizing Zelensky. Biden officials approve of this, because they’d like to apply the same standard here. The media agree. Here’s a statement from Gonzalo Lira’s… pic.twitter.com/4H2otHhYHi
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) December 9, 2023
Gonzalo Lira Sr. gave an interview to Tucker Carlson released Dec. 9, 2023, describing the situation and charging the U.S. Embassy in Kiev “hasn’t done a thing” to help his son.
“Neither I nor his sister living in the USA have been able to communicate” with Lira, his father said. “The Embassy never visited him, except, for the first time, at his court appointment Nov. 8th.”
“An American citizen is in jail because he was exercising his right of freedom of speech”, Lira Sr. told Carlson. “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.”
“Did the State Department give the green light to Zelensky to put my son in jail?” Gonzalo Lira Sr. asked.
After the interview with Tucker Carlson, the pressure increased on the U.S. Embassy to do something about the case.
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