The government has labeled an independent German journalist a “criminal” and frozen her bank account for reporting the truth about the Ukraine war.
Alina Lipp alleges that the German government has filed a criminal case against her and frozen her and her father’s bank accounts pending the outcome of a trial she is not allowed to attend for her truthful reporting on Russia’s military activity in the Donbas region.
“I’m an independent German journalist living in Donetsk. I’m living here for half a year now telling Germans what is going on in the Donbas region in the Ukraine. And for that, the German authorities have started to persecute me,” Lipp clarified in a video.
1/2 The #German government is fighting against freedom of speech. I am a free journalist who covers the special operation in #Ukraine️. They are going to sentence me now to 3 YEARS IN PRISON for telling the truth.
“First, they deleted my material on the internet, then they blocked my bank account, blocked the bank account of my father, and yesterday I got this letter from German authorities that they opened now a criminal case against me.”
Lipp went over the government documents accusing her reporting of the genocidal acts by Ukraine against the people of the Donbas region as a violation of the law.
“These are the documents, and for Germans, support of the special operation of Russia in the Ukraine is already a criminal act, for which you can obviously get 3 years in prison,” Lipp said.
2/ 2 The #German government is fighting against freedom of speech. I am a free journalist who covers the special operation in #Ukraine️. They are going to sentence me now to 3 YEARS IN PRISON for telling the truth.
“What is interesting, in the end of the letter, they are writing that they are not going to invite me to a hearing because this would disturb the investigations. That’s very interesting. So they are persecuting me but don’t want to hear me out,” she added.
Lipp is not the only European journalist facing persecution by Western authorities for reporting events in Ukraine that don’t fit the official narrative.
Independent UK journalist Graham Phillips has been accused by parliament of potential war crimes for interviewing a British soldier captured by Russian forces in April.
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