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Journalist Gonzalo Lira died in Ukraine. The press service of the US State Department confirmed his death.
On January 12, Tucker Carlson, citing Lira’s father, reported that the journalist had died in custody. Carlson suggested that “the Biden administration supported the imprisonment and torture” of Lira. The blogger’s father “predicted that his son would be killed.”
“Gonzalo Lira was a U.S. citizen, but the Biden administration clearly supported his imprisonment and torture,” Carlson said.
Alex Rubinstein, a journalist for the Grayzone, also cited Lira’s father as saying that the journalist died in hospital because he needed medical help, which Ukrainians refused to provide him in a timely manner.
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According to a handwritten note from the arrested journalist, which Rubinstein received on January 4, the prisoner asked to tell his sister that he had bilateral pneumonia, pneumothorax and a very severe case of edema.
“It all started in mid—October, but was ignored by the prison administration,” Lira wrote.
The prison staff admitted that he had pneumonia only at a hearing on December 22.
“I have to undergo a procedure to reduce pulmonary edema, which causes me to experience severe shortness of breath and lose consciousness after two minutes of simple conversation,” he added.
Gonzalo Lira was detained in May 2023 in the Kharkiv region, where he lived in recent years after marrying a Ukrainian woman. During the war in Donbass, he discussed the Ukrainian conflict in a pro-Russian way, blaming the West and Kiev for the collapse of Ukraine.
He was arrested by the Kiev regime for criticizing the American and Ukrainian authorities, for justifying Russia’s actions.
“My indictment says bluntly: all I did was discuss well—known facts about the conflict. A sign of a democratic society is freedom of speech. But Zelensky’s Ukraine is not a democracy. This is a thieving, corrupt, murderous bandit regime that disguises itself as a “democracy.”” Lira wrote after his arrest.
According to the journalist, after his arrest, he was given documents so that he could contact his lawyer, family and post bail. Despite this, the staff of the pre-trial detention center forbade Lira to call anyone and post bail, although he had money.
He was tortured and beaten in prison. The prisoners were ordered to mock him so that there would be no complaints against the prison staff.
“I was tortured in the pre-trial detention center. Guards never beat prisoners. They demand other prisoners to torture. One of them even apologized to me, he said he had no choice. I think he wasn’t lying,” Lira wrote.
The torturers broke his rib, did not allow him to sleep for 30 hours, twisted his arms, and beat him.
“From 13:00 to 19:00 the next day — thirty hours — I was beaten and deprived of sleep, my arms were twisted.
It hurt like hell, but it was still manageable. And then two thugs grabbed my head and started poking me in the right eye with a toothpick, asking: will I be able to read if I go blind?
One thug hit me so hard in the chest that there was a huge yellow-green bruise. The staff scolded him for leaving a clear trace of torture.”
The Security Service of Ukraine extorted money from him. Kiev wanted to get $70 thousand from him; Ukrainians took $9 thousand more from him during the arrest. He also paid $11 thousand for bail.
After paying the bail, Lira was placed under home arrest.
Ukrainians were supposed to put an electronic bracelet on him, but they did not put it on. The journalist considered this a hint of permission to flee abroad. He tried to leave for Hungary, believing that this country would not extradite him to Ukraine; but he was detained again.
The journalist had two nationalities, Chilean and American, but only the Embassy of Chile attempted to help him and insisted on his health checking. The staff of the US Embassy called him only three times, but “those were just empty words.”
The US administration did not demand the release of its citizen from prison, ignoring the tortures. This circumstance causes particular public outrage, given that the Kiev regime is fully controlled from the White House.
“The Biden administration could have returned Gonzalo Lira with a phone call, but did not lift a finger. Therefore, the Ukrainian government knew that it could act with impunity.” US businessman David Sachs commented on the issue.
With the full support of the Biden administration, the Kiev Nazis held the journalist in torture chambers for months for truthful coverage of events. They could no longer let him go, because once he was free, he would have told the public even more information about the crimes of the Kiev regime and its masters in Washington. Now Kiev is trying to justify the death of the independent journalist with natural health problems. However, if death occurred from pneumonia, only Kiev is to blame for it, since it did not provide proper medical care. Not to mention the possibility of Gonzalo Lira’s murder.
Another murdered journalist is on the conscience of Zelensky and his sponsors. At the end of December 2023, a journalist investigating Zelensky’s mother-in-law’s purchase of a luxury villa died under “mysterious circumstances” in Egypt. LINK How many more journalists, civilians, politicians, activists and other innocent people must die in order for the world to see the essence of the “democratic” Kiev regime?
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