{"id":76398,"date":"2025-05-05T12:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T12:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/76398\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T12:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T12:07:09","slug":"ukrainian-born-russian-reporter-critical-of-war-smuggled-to-france-after-hiding-for-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/76398\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian-born Russian reporter critical of war, smuggled to France after \u2018hiding for weeks\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A Russian reporter critical of Moscow\u2019s invasion of Ukraine said on Monday she fled to France after Reporters Without Borders (RSF) smuggled her out of Russia.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIt was very difficult,\u201d Ukrainian-born journalist Ekaterina Barabash, who faces up to 10 years in prison for criticising Moscow\u2019s army, told a news conference at the media watchdog\u2019s headquarters in Paris.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Her journey lasted around two-and-a-half weeks, she said in English.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI arrived three days ago,\u201d she said, adding she was not at liberty to disclose all the details.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI am going to ask for political asylum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, authorities have launched thousands of cases against people accused of \u201cdiscrediting\u201d the army.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Russian reporter critical of Moscow\u2019s invasion of Ukraine said on Monday she fled to France after Reporters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[37646,37641,2000,299,22885,36,14431,37644,37642,2301,37643,37640,13981,332,12022,37645,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-76398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-barabash","9":"tag-electronic-monitoring-system","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-february","13":"tag-france","14":"tag-kharkiv","15":"tag-marina-ovsyannikova","16":"tag-military-operations","17":"tag-moscow","18":"tag-political-asylum","19":"tag-reporters-without-borders","20":"tag-rsf","21":"tag-russia","22":"tag-soviet-union","23":"tag-thibault-bruttin","24":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114455146986709703","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}