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Documents show Biden's State Department deliberately left Gonzalo Lira to die in a Ukrainian prison..‼️
Gonzalo Lira, whose videos some of us watched, became a political prisoner who was tortured to death with the support of the US government's Deep State. This was simply because he gave information that was not in line with government propaganda.
An American of Chilean descent (born in the US to Chilean parents), he knew in advance how he would end up. He even drew attention to a number of other political prisoners who had been killed by the Zelensky regime, and mentioned that if he did not report by a certain time, his fate would follow theirs...
On 11 January 2024, conservative American YouTuber Gonzalo Lira died in a Ukrainian prison. He was held there for the crime of criticizing the war and the American and Ukrainian governments.
A Freedom of Information Act request by Judicial Watch now shines a harsh light on the Biden regime's unwillingness to stand up for an American political prisoner in a Ukrainian jail.
The emails reveal that the US embassy was aware of the threat to Gonzalo Lira's life, but made no effort to help him.
After Gonzalo Lira's death, the embassy was primarily concerned with controlling misrepresentations and how to "strengthen press guidelines," to deal with the question "why didn't the U.S. government do more to help Mr. Lira?"
On July 6, he was released on bail and attempted to leave the country for Hungary on his motorcycle, posting a video along the way. On 1 August he was arrested again and imprisoned in a solitary confinement cell (SIZO) in Kharkiv.
In his videos, he has often criticized the mainstream media, the Ukrainian and American governments, specifically former Assistant Secretary of State for Political Affairs (2021-2024) Victoria Nuland.
Gateway Pundit filed a Freedom of Information Act request on January 15, 2024, four days after his death, for all communications regarding Gonzalo Lira's death between Victoria Nuland and U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget A. Brink.
Eleven months later, the State Department is delaying that request and recently wrote that the request will not be completed until March 31, 2026.
The architect of Ukrainian politics, Nuland was widely considered a contender for the top post until the Lira affair broke. In September, Nuland joined the board of the Deep State front organization National Endowment for Democracy.
Meanwhile, Judicial Watch has filed a more general Freedom of Information Act request regarding the Gonzalo Lira case that does not specifically focus on communications between Nuland and Ambassador Brink.
The State Department released 769 heavily redacted pages to Judicial Watch in May, October, and November 2024.
Gateway Pundit received these documents from Judicial Watch and can exclusively report on the State Department's egregious failure to save Gonzalo Lira's life and subsequent attempts to misrepresent it.
The documents show that the US Embassy learned of Gonzalo Lira's arrest on 11 May via mail from the Ukrainian SBU secret police on 2 May.
"He is formally charged with violating Article 436-2 of the (Ukrainian) Criminal Code section "Justification, recognition as legitimate, denial of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, glorification of its participants."
In November 2024, Ukrainian opposition lawmaker Oleksandr Dubinsky claimed to have irrefutable evidence that Gonzalo Lira was murdered by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), TASS news agency reported.
"We have received irrefutable proof that US citizen and blogger Gonzalo Lira was tortured in a Kharkiv detention facility. He was beaten in the same way as I was in the Kiev detention facility - he was taken to a cell where they extorted money from him, in a very bad condition. When he made it public, he was killed," Dubinsky said on his Telegram channel.
From Telegram
https://x.com/peacemaket71/status/1868613909768241579
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The documents show that the U.S. Embassy became aware of Gonzalo Lira’s arrest on May 11 via mail from the Ukrainian secret police SBU dates May 2. “He is formally charged with a violation of Article 436-2 part of the (Ukrainian) criminal code “Justification, recognition as legitimate, denial of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, glorification of its participants.” Mr. Lira operates a YouTube site where he posts numerous videos that criticize the Ukrainian and U.S. governments, to whom he attributes blame for the war in Ukraine”, an Embassy staffer wrote to Ambassador Bridget Brink Aug. 3, with a full timeline of events to date (see photos).
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The full Gateway Pundit article can be found here: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...en-state-dept/
Judicial Watch FOIA Bombshell: How the Biden State Dept. Let YouTuber Gonzalo Lira Die in Ukrainian Prison
by Collin McMahon
Dec. 15, 2024 3:00 pm
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The Department of State released 769 heavily redacted pages to Judicial Watch in May, October and November 2024. The Gateway Pundit has received these documents from Judicial Watch and can report exclusively on the State Department’s egregious failure to save Gonzalo Lira’s life and subsequent attempts at spin.
Some of the emails in the article, below:
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Related article: Judicial Watch Smoking Gun in Gonzalo Lira Case: How Biden State Dept. Could Have Saved His Life and Didn’t by Collin McMahon, December 16th 2024
Link: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...lira-case-how/
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Ukrainian Whistleblower: 'How the SBU Robbed and Killed a U.S. Citizen'
One of Ukraine’s most important whistleblowers, former Parliamentarian and People’s Deputy, Oleksandr Dubinsky, currently imprisoned by President Zelensky, has released a stunning video testimony this week – which exposes an egregious crime committed by his country’s Secret Service (SBU) against a U.S. citizen who was residing in Ukraine.
Presently, Dubinsky is being held in a secure facility where his is currently awaiting trial, after the state after a criminal case had been initiated against him for the alleged crime of high treason.
In his video below, Dubinsky reveals more crucial details about the death of Gonzalo Lira, a popular American video blogger and independent journalist, who reportedly died under unusual circumstanced while held in custody for criticizing the Zelensky government’s performance in the war, as well as criticism of Kiev regime’s repression of religious freedom in Ukraine.
The following is an English translation of Dubinsky’s recent video, interspersed with statements made by Vasily Nebenzya, the current Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations:
Dubinsky: Friends, hello, everyone. I am glad to see and hear you all. Another important statement that came from the representative of the aggressor State, the representative of the Russian Federation in the UN Security Council, Nebenzya. This is a statement that a US citizen, Gonzalo Lira, died in the SBU concentration camps, in the so-called ‘torture and secret prisons.’
Nebenzya: And listen to what the escaped deputy of the Rada (Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine) Artem Dmytruk told. How he was tortured by SBU officers in 2022, trying to extract testimony and confession of treason. The main claim against him was that he spoke in defense of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC). Here are excerpts from his gruesome account published on the internet. I quote: “I was thrown on the cold and wet floor, somewhere nearby I heard the screams and groans of my friends. A little further away were the screams and groans of other people and the horrible sounds of torture. They were beating me terribly, trying to gouge out my eyes. I lost consciousness several times and fell from the chair, came to my senses and was tortured again.” End quote. He was threatened to be shot or disabled. After that he was transported to the gym of the Odessa SBU office, where he was forced to say loudly and clearly on camera that he would never again criticize Vladimir Zelensky and the head of his office, Andrei Yermak. In addition, he was forced to be an SBU agent to fight the opposition to Zelensky. Dmytruk is not the only politician who stated about the existence of SBU concentration camps in Kiev. Another Rada deputy, Oleksandr Dubynskyy, in particular, previously reported about the existence of such camps in Kiev. He claims that more than 300 people were tortured through it in order to extract testimony against now-elected US President Donald Trump for use in the electoral struggle in the United States. Interesting confessions, aren’t they? From them you can get an impression of what the American journalist Gonzalo Lira, arrested in August 2023, tortured to death and died in the SBU walls on January 12, 2024, had to go through. And what 70-year-old human rights activist Olena Berezhnaya, who was sentenced to 14 years in prison a month ago after months of torture in SBU custody, who was never broken by the Zelensky clique, had to face because she went to the United Nations and spoke out about human rights violations by the Kiev regime.
Dubinsky: This is also a confirmed fact. This is not the Russian IPSO, and of course, on the one hand, I am not happy that my investigations are being exploited by Russia Today. But if the Ukrainian government allowed the creation of torture secret prisons and concentration camps where Ukrainian citizens were being killed, broken and destroyed, and where US citizens were also destroyed there – then it doesn’t matter who is talking about it, as long as it is a fact confirmed by the reports of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Ukrainian register of court decisions – which today contains dozens of decisions on the case of Gonzalo Lira, an American citizen who was detained under the same article, by the way, that was presented today to blogger Max Nazarov – “Glorification of the Russian invasion of Ukraine”. Under this article, he was detained in Kharkiv, brought to Kyiv, then held in the SBU concentration camp “Gym,” then returned to Kharkiv, placed there in the SBU detention center, and then from the SBU detention center he was transferred to the Kharkiv detention center, in the so-called “Common Fund” detention center.
In this Kharkiv detention center, US citizen Gonzalo Lira was tortured and money extorted from him. According to publications in his social networks and private correspondence, which I have at my disposal, Gonzalo Lira says that he was extorted for $70,000 dollars and gave it to the SBU officers of Kharkiv region, who opened a criminal case against him and kept him in the detention center. And they extorted money from him by means of abuse and torture, which were carried out on him in the Kharkiv detention center. These correspondence of Gonzalo Lira indicates that they beat him there, broke his ribs, tried to pull out his eye with a toothpick. This is how a U.S. citizen was treated in the 21st century in the center of Europe, in European Ukraine. Think about how stupid they are. I mean, people realized they were dealing with an American citizen, but they didn’t care. They tortured him, killed him, beat him to death, gouged out his eyes – so that he would just give them the money. Impunity and stupidity, under the guise of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). Gonzalo Lira ended up with a broken rib. He suffered a so-called pneumothorax as a result of this fracture. This is when bone fragments after broken ribs as a result of beating or trauma, which pierced the lung. Water begins to accumulate there, and the person dies. So, in the Ukrainian Register of Court Decisions there is a decision of the Dzerzhinsky District Court of Kharkiv, in which Gonzalo Lira is present via video link, and he already has bilateral inflammation of the lungs at that time, which is January 2024. His lawyer demands to transfer him under house arrest, because the man was really dying, but at the same time the prosecutor’s office, representatives of the SBU, judges and most importantly – the medical part of Kharkiv pre-trial detention center – claimed there was nothing threatening the life of Gonzalo Lira. And he literally in a few weeks dies in Kharkiv pre-trial detention center from pulmonary hydrocele, which was caused by broken ribs that punctured his lungs. It is obvious that he was not released from the Kharkiv SIZO after the beatings for three reasons. One: he would have clearly stated that he was seriously injured. And I emphasize again – I have his correspondence and statements, where he clearly describes what torture was, and how he was tortured in the Kharkiv detention center. The second reason is that he would have reported extortion by officers of the Security Service of Ukraine, and I also have these documents. And, finally, the third reason – if he was released with such fractures and such injuries, it would be obvious to everyone that he was tortured, and information would come out about the SBU concentration camp “Gym”, where foreign citizens were kept, and about the SBU torture in Kharkiv. And most importantly, the administration of outgoing President Biden, represented by Secretary of State Blinken and U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink, actually gave the go-ahead for an American citizen to be killed in a Ukrainian prison. Why did it give the go-ahead for this? Because Gonzalo Lira in his videos criticized not only the Ukrainian leadership, but criticized Americans as well, calling them out as responsible for unleashing the war in Ukraine. That’s what he was essentially killed for.
I recorded a lengthy video for you from the Kiev Court of Appeals, where they read excerpts from Gonzalo Lira’s reports about the torture that was carried out on him. Just watch this video so that you understand what Malyuk’s and Bakanov’s employees, SBU employees, were doing, how they were torturing Ukrainian and American citizens just to extort money from them. And then, after getting $70,000 dollars from Gonzalo Lira, they killed him to cover up their crimes.
Dubinsky’s speech in the Kyiv Court of Appeal
“An American citizen and blogger, Gonzalo Lopez Lira, was tortured in this concentration camp, the ‘Gym’. He got into this concentration camp, was held there (I have testimony that shows the stay of an American citizen Gonzalo Lopez Lira in the “Gym” concentration camp), and then was killed in the Kharkiv detention center. No one investigated this issue, because, of course, US and Ukrainian officials were not interested in the fact that a US citizen could be tortured to death in a European, democratic Ukraine. But we have the relevant documents personally from Gonzalo Lopez Lira, written by him. They are written in English. I will pass them on and hope that our esteemed judges on the appellate level know English and will read them. What do these messages from Gonzalo Lopez Lira say? They say that he was detained after being repeatedly beaten and after being released from the concentration camp (and he made further recordings), he was detained again by the Security Service of Ukraine, charged with glorification of Russian armed aggression and, since he is registered in Kharkiv, sent to the Kharkiv pre-trial detention center. According to reports personally from an American citizen, which I will also pass on to you for your assessment, Gonzalo Lopez Lira has been in the so-called “pressure cell” 4 times. During this time, his ribs were broken, and in order to get money from him, because I’m speaking not only about beatings, but also about extortion of money, they tried to gouge out his eye with a toothpick. He describes the process: how his head is clamped between someone’s knees, and they try to gouge out his eye with a toothpick in order to get him to pay money. Gonzalo Lopez Lira pays representatives of the SBU and the Kharkiv detention center $70,000, as it is also stated here, to stop the abuse. And to give him the opportunity to get out of the detention center on bail. After that, the Dzerzhynskyi District Court of Kharkiv decided to set bail for Gonzalo Lopez Lira in the amount of $11,000. He tries to leave Ukraine, is grabbed again, thrown into the detention center, beaten again, and suffers a pneumothorax. This is a lung injury due to a broken rib that pierces the lung tissue, bilateral pneumonia, edema, and he dies. There is a decision of the Dzerzhinsky District Court of Kharkiv, which clearly states that he is in critical condition, but the staff of the Health Care Organization of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine assure that Gonzalo Lopez Lira is not in danger. He is not provided with a lawyer, he has a free Ukrainian lawyer who does not even speak English. Then, two weeks after the hearing, he dies in the Kharkiv pre-trial detention center from pneumothorax and bilateral pneumonia. In order to cover up the crimes against the US citizen, extortion of money from him and infliction of bodily harm, including in the SBU concentration camp. This is just an illustration of how criminal cases are fabricated in modern Ukraine under such a convenient article as “high treason”. And how judges participate in this fabrication in order to keep people who interfere or threaten the regime under control.”
“I have everything, I am providing you with the relevant materials. Make a decision, give another assessment that all this does not exist.”
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🚨🇺🇦AMERICAN REPORTER GONZALO LIRA DIED IN A UKRAINIAN PRISON LAST MONTH
Journalist Gonzalo Lira, a U.S.-Chilean citizen, died in a Ukrainian prison in January 2024 after being detained by the Security Service of Ukraine in May of the previous year for allegedly supporting Russia’s military operation.
Lira was accused of spreading pro-Russian narratives and was granted bail, but authorities claim he violated the terms and attempted to flee Ukraine on a motorcycle toward the Hungarian border.
He was later re-arrested and held in a Kharkov detention center awaiting trial.
His death sparked international outrage, with critics questioning the treatment of journalists in Ukraine.
Source: TASS
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1892306305349820677
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Gonzalo is in the Heroes Paradise...
Every culture has a different name for that place...
Valhalla ,Elysium, etc.
Those are the places for the braves,fearless,but not only with the sword...
With a pen, words,actions... cutting their way through the weeds for them and for us until we see the light...
Their end is always tragic, the price they pay for challenge the "gods" ...but that is only for their mortal coils...
As spirits they rest,had fun for a while until their are ready for another round in our battlefield against (for the moment) eternal evil.
Meanwhile they seduce sexy Angels whom always favor the BOLD... :heart:
https://media.tenor.com/Bn59YIp362kAAAAM/angel.gif
In eternal gratitude to Gonzalo.
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- Russia Exposes How Ukraine Torture and Killed US Journo Gonzalo Lira:
At the United Nations Security Council, Russia’s Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia accused the Ukrainian government of torturing and murdering American journalist Gonzalo Lira in a Kharkiv detention center. Citing leaked personal correspondence and Ukrainian court documents, Nebenzia claimed that Lira was brutally beaten, extorted for $70,000, and ultimately denied life-saving medical treatment. He alleged that the U.S. Biden administration turned a blind eye to Lira’s fate, treating his death as mere "collateral damage." The claims, if verified, could escalate tensions between Russia, Ukraine, and the West, raising serious human rights concerns.
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27 min - -6 Mar 2025 Klarenberg (The Grayzone) discusses the death of independent journalist Gonzalo Lira.
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Here is a most interesting interview from someone whom I never thought would be worth hearing from again. Kim Iversen interviews Sarah Ashton Cirillo. You may not remember the name, but you may remember "her" (the proper pronoun at the time) discussing the fate of Gonzalo Lira when he was arrested when she was briefly a spokesperson for the Ukrainian military. You may remember the face:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...on-Cirillo.jpg
There is quite an interesting backstory and Cirillo actually reached out to Kim Iversen to be on the show and has quite the tale to tell. A few summary bullet points:
- Kim Iversen now refers to Cirillo as "he". Around the time of making these appearances for the Ukrainian military, Cirillo decided that he no longer had gender dysphoria and stopped taking the hormones and now sounds and looks male and is happy to be referred to as such and can be called "Sarah" or "Ashton".
- Regrets having been a paid propagandist for the Ukraine, if only because he can never be taking seriously again as a journalist.
- Still sees Russia as an aggressive hostile enemy to the United States, although he has a lot of other complex nuanced views on politics (e.g. very supportive of Julian Assange, but not of Snowden.)
- Says that there was a lot more to the Gonzalo Lira story than what meets the eye. Lira had more info on the war than he was revealing in his appearances on You Tube which he was leaking to a host at Russia Today, and to other individuals in Russia (whose name he can not divulge at this time). Lira was hoping it would land him a show on Russia Today. Lira had been offered a U.S. passport and the opportunity to leave Ukraine for either the U.S. or Chile several times. There is much debate on the finer points and the ethics behind these matters between Iversen and Cirillo.
There are some revelations here and much to love and/or hate, but it is all a very interesting and complex story.
Source: https://www.rumble.com/video/v6oscxk
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Gonzalo Lira died after getting tortured, extorted and held incommunicado in a Ukrainian prison.
The U.S. embassy did nothing.
Fellow American Ashton-Cirillo bragged about testifying against him (karmic justice will get you, fascist rat).
His crime was revealing the truth about the Washington neocon cabal fomenting a war in Ukraine, for the purpose of destabilizing Russia and toppling Putin.
It's a geopolitical game where the cabal spends people's lives like Zelensky's wife spends grifted cash.
Gonzalo's YouTube videos developed quite a following, changed many minds about the true nature of the conflict.
He poked a finger right in the establishment's eye, and that's a very dangerous thing to do when they can reach you and get at you.
I wouldn't be surprised if the American government was complicit in his capture and treatment.
https://helsinkitimes.fi/world-int/2...n-ukraine.html
https://x.com/CheburekiMan/status/1793325275469553887
https://x.com/amborin/status/1686809280937345024
https://x.com/heyyallitsHam/status/1677394580214259728
https://x.com/Malcolm_fleX48/status/1892430464197038513
https://x.com/LauraRu852/status/1516339646094987264
https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1745896100022596027
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The US biological male "Sarah" Ashton-Cirillo turned "woman" appears to have returned to being a man in record time after being directly responsible for the arrest and death of Gonzalo Lira as a collaborator of the Ukrainian regime.
https://x.com/SarahAshtonLV/status/1...277380/video/1
https://x.com/ChanceGardiner/status/1790517295871119604
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So now that American indy media pundit Gonzalo Lira has been reported dead in (US funded) #Ukraine SBU custody, we have to ask: where is Michael “Sarah Ashton” Cirillo
@SarahAshtonLV
the American trans Nazi Barbie doing agit-prop for Zelensky - in the video below He/She/They Cirillo announced ‘he (Gonzalo) will finally pay’ for his supposed crime of being a Russian propaganda agent. Gonzalo was already in custody so we presume they meant death. Cirillo needs to be brought in for questioning, arrested, and if found guilty… face justice….
https://x.com/21WIRE/status/1745993358281978015
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