{"id":1924,"date":"2025-03-11T20:32:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T15:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ainews.prativad.com\/index.php\/moscow-reproaches-western-media-for-silence-over-us-journalists-death\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T20:32:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T15:02:29","slug":"moscow-reproaches-western-media-for-silence-over-us-journalists-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ainews.prativad.com\/index.php\/moscow-reproaches-western-media-for-silence-over-us-journalists-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscow reproaches Western media for silence over US journalist\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chilean-American blogger Gonzalo Lira died behind bars in Ukraine in January 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n

The fact that only Moscow cared about the fate of US blogger Gonzalo Lira, who died in a Ukrainian prison last year, is a sign of the \u201cdeepest crisis\u201d<\/em> affecting the international bodies that are supposed to protect journalists, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said.<\/p>\n

Lira, a Chilean-American citizen, passed away behind bars in Ukraine in January 2024, while awaiting trial for \u201csystematically justifying the Russian aggression.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Zakharova recalled the ordeal of the US journalist during a conference on the development of modern media at the Moscow School of Economics (MSE) on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cHas anyone else talked about Gonzalo Lira? An American journalist, He had a US passport. Has anyone talked about him besides Russia? Try to remember. Nobody did,\u201d<\/em> she insisted.<\/p>\n

When asked about Lira\u2019s incarceration, the White House and the US State Department replied with \u201cstrategic silence, generously paid for by USAID, an American agency that supposedly promotes international development. It is ridiculous,\u201d<\/em> the spokeswoman stressed.<\/p>\n

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The international institutions that are supposed to protect journalists are currently in \u201cthe deepest crisis,\u201d<\/em> Zakharov said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWaiting for them to resuscitate or for them to be resuscitated by someone else is unnecessary and useless\u201d<\/em> as Russia, which has \u201can amazing and diverse\u201d<\/em> journalistic community, has the potential to correct the situation on its own, she noted.<\/p>\n

Lira, who was married to a Ukrainian woman and had resided in the city of Kharkov since 2010, got in trouble with the Kiev authorities for his coverage of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine on YouTube, which was critical of the government of Vladimir Zelensky.<\/p>\n

The blogger, writer and filmmaker, who had Hollywood experience, was first detained by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in early 2022, but released after a week without any charges being pressed against him.<\/p>\n

Lira was arrested again in May 2023 and released on bail three months later; he claimed he\u2019d been subjected to torture while in prison. He ended up in custody again in late July that year after jumping bail and attempting to flee the country to seek asylum in Hungary.<\/p>\n

At that time, his father, Gonzalo Lira Sr., suggested that the administration of then-President Joe Biden gave \u201cat least tacit approval of Gonzalo\u2019s arrest.\u201d<\/em> The journalist\u2019s family later blamed Kiev for his death in prison.<\/p>\n

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In February, US President Donald Trump\u2019s close ally Elon Musk also claimed that Zelensky had \u201ckilled\u201d<\/em> the American journalist. When asked about Lira during a press conference last month, the Ukrainian leader replied: \u201cI do not know this man. I never knew him.\u201d<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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