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Jul 19, 2021 • 6 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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1/ This is one of the grimmest stories I've done in #Russia. Since 2017, Russia has run a campaign of terror against Jehovah's Witnesses. It's one of the worst examples of oppression in the country, and maybe the most mysterious.
Our new @ABC short film: abcn.ws/3ku5nZ4
2/ If you ask people what is the most persecuted group in #Russia, few would think of the Jehovah's Witnesses.
But they are now one of the most.
Hundreds of arrests. People jailed for up to 8 years.
A trailer for our new @ABC short doc.
Full film here: abcn.ws/3ku5nZ4
3/ We were filming in northern #Russia with a group of Jehovah's Witnesses when police came for one man. They tried to take him by force to imprison him in a psychiatric hospital. When he refused, they jumped him in front of our cameras.
Watch here: abcn.ws/3ku5nZ4
4/ #Russia's campaign is bafflingly cruel. An entirely peaceful religious group is being subjected to mass arrests, house raids by SWAT teams and in some places torture. Those arrested face sentences of 6-10 years in prison. Dozens are already jailed.
abcn.ws/3ku5nZ4
5/ In late 2019 we filmed with Yury Temirbulatov, a very gentle man, who is entirely law abiding. In February, he was arrested and he now likely faces 6 years in a prison camp.
His only 'crime' is for praying and singing hymns.
It's heartbreaking.
abcn.ws/3ku5nZ4
6/ Jehovah's Witnesses are not popular, they don't illicit much sympathy. But their treatment in #Russia is horrific. It's deeply shocking that in 21st Century Europe a peaceful religious group is being jailed, tortured and put in psychiatric institutions
abcn.ws/3ku5nZ4

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This is the story of how the CIA and Ukrainian intelligence secretly forged a deep partnership, beginning from 2014.
Told to us by former US and Ukrainian officials involved.
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The secret CIA partnership became crucial to Ukraine's defense against Russia. It also gave the US remarkable intelligence on Moscow.
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Ex-Ukrainian and US officials told us the partnership with the CIA was first sparked by the Ukrainians, who post-Maidan in 2014 began pushing to convince the Americans to trust them. At first the US believed Ukraine was still too compromised by Russia. Image
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Mar 16, 2022
Significant. Russia’s foreign minister Lavrov says that, at their ongoing peace negotiations Ukraine and Russia are now discussing “concrete formulations, that are close to agreement.”
Russia's lead negotiator says Ukraine is proposing to adopt neutral status on the model of Austria or Sweden- i.e. a country that is not part of NATO but has its own army and still able to pursue close ties with the West, including EU membership.
No confirmation from the Ukraine side. Zelenskyy in recent days has repeatedly said Ukraine understands NATO will not take it. Last night he said the Russian positions at the talks now “sound realistic”.
But he has said more time is needed.
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Oct 13, 2021
1/ What’s happening on the border between Belarus and Poland is nightmarish.
Belarus is pushing migrants over the border and Poland is blocking them. The result is dozens, likely hundreds are trapped in the forests for weeks, without food.
Our @ABC piece
2/ We found Rami and two friends shivering and terrified in the woods in eastern Poland. They had been there for 2 weeks. They had no food. One had no shoes. All were from Yemen and seeking asylum. They had been pushed back to Belarus four times.
3/ When Polish border guards find people, even if they are starved and frozen, they are pushing them back across the border into the forest in #Belarus .
Only those who are severely ill are hospitalized. In some cases, guards are driving people back from hospital to the border.
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Jun 26, 2019
1. When we started this story we could never have imagined it would end like this. For months we filmed the trial of Gaylen Grandstaff, an American put in jail in #Russia over a cleaning product. Our new @ABC short film takes you inside what it was like. abcn.ws/2XteCxK Image
2. When I first met Gaylen Grandstaff he was in a cage in a court in #Russia. The American from Texas had already spent a year and a half in a Moscow jail while on trial. He'd been attacked and denied medical care. It seemed hopeless.
abcn.ws/2XteCxK ImageImage
3. Grandstaff was charged with large-scale drug smuggling for ordering a solvent cleaner on the site @AliExpress_EN which turned out to contain a banned substance, GBL. He said he’d no way of knowing. The charge carried a maximum sentence of 20 years jail.
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