Seraphim Hanisch
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The Russian News Agency TASS reported Monday August 20, 2018 that Russian citizen Maria Butina has been suffering “inhumane and degrading” treatment. Russian Ombudsperson Tatiana Moskalkova gave the following statement on her website:
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“I would like to express my utmost concern at the actions of US prison authorities during the transfer of Russian citizen Maria Butina from Washington to Alexandria (Virginia State) prison… There are clear signs of cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment, punishment by the US government and violation of the rules of international law.”
RT also reported on this matter on Sunday, 19 August, noting that the 29 year old Russian gun rights activist was moved to a different prison without warning. The Russian embassy claimed that her new conditions are bordering on torture. The report of her incarceration conditions is frustrating and saddening to read:
The Russian embassy in the US, which has been closely following Butina’s case, says she was transferred from her Washington jail handcuffed, without warning or explanation for the move. Before the move, Butina was subjected to a “degrading full strip search,” and all her things were taken away, including books, shoes, towels and other hygiene items.
Butina was moved to a prison in Alexandria, Virginia, and spent the next 12 hours in a quarantine cell with no food and all the lights on, unable to sleep. She will now be kept in “administrative segregation,”which means locked up in solitary confinement – conditions bordering on torture, the embassy says.
Embassy staff paid an emergency visit to Butina in her new place of detention. They also intend to send another note of official protest to the US Department of State, in addition to the one recently filed over the inhumane treatment of the Russian citizen.
“We have more and more questions to the U.S. justice system,” the embassy says in a Facebook post. “Should allegations pressed against Maria before the actual trial condemn her to practices that are slightly below torture? It seems that the reason behind the US decision to withdraw from the UN Human Rights Council was to give the US authorities green light for such provocations.”
The majority of US government agencies have been pursuing an increasingly aggressive stance towards the Russian Federation without any hard evidence for cause for over two years now. In the last week a painful sanctions package was approved which goes into effect on Wednesday this week.
As we have reported at the Duran, this action appears to be serving a dual purpose – to isolate and hurt Russia in her own ability to remain sovereign and not part of the globalist agenda, and at the same time to create a situation through which the removal of US President Donald Trump may be initiated after the midterms in November.
Added to this is the recent arrest and imprisonment of 29-year-old Maria Butina, a Russian political activist who supports a Russian pro-gun group called “Right to Bear Arms.” In this regard, she was a known presence at gun-rights lobbies in the US, where she was living and studying at the American University in Washington, DC.
Her involvement in US politics, notably the National Rifle Association and her alliances with Republicans and conservatives in the US made her a target for accusation as a Russian agent, presumably to further bolster the idea that Trump and by extension, members of the Republican Party at large were in alliance with with the Russians in the like manner as the “election collusion” narrative that has been the dead weight on the Trump presidency since before day one.
Butina is being held on conspiracy charges that would be laughable to even think of any other time.
Like Russiagate, these charges are unsubstantiated.
Like Russiagate, these charges are in reaction to the fact that Mr. Trump won the presidency and not Hillary Clinton.
And, like Russiagate, these charges are a major attempt to cut Russia off from the world, simply because Russia will not play the globalist game. Again here, one need only refer to Vladimir Putin’s speech in Valdai in 2013 to see the battle lines that are drawn.
One can only wonder at the insanity of the American government apparatus and the power that seems to be operating through it. This is not the way the United States used to be.
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Amerikkka says that its exceptionality cannot be discussed because it has the “moral high ground” hahahahha It shows that perfectly well in this and hundreds of other instances. Don’t worry, before God kills you, Amerikkka, he will make you insane as we can all witness it’s happening.
The three forces that are destroying Amerikkka : Lust, Greed and Hubris !
The FBI punishes this poor woman to try to provide cover to their embarrassment over recent revelations of FBI dementia in the media.
Not to sure about “This is not the way the United States used to be”….guess they are just showing their TRUE colours NOW…
I’m have mixed feelings on this issue. She thought the US was so great and now she’s being fucked (probably) by them. She was a female Navalny. Let’s see how much she loves the west after this. Advocating for open carry in Russia? Fuck you Butina. Perhaps she could represent Ukraine. She could team up with Porkosheckle’s once useful dyke.
Well… She deserves it!
Any SANE PERSON (especially with Russian citizenship) knows that going to the United States of Terrorism can never be a good choice/action!
So I can only conclude that Maria is not a SANE FEMALE!
Not forgetting the Russian pilot jailed in US:
Russian pilot jailed in US needs urgent medical help — human rights commissioner
More:
http://tass.com/society/1018080
Another brazen act of war by the US against Russia.
I hate to tell you this, but these conditions are standard in the US Federal Bureau of Prisons system. They are the sorts of things every prisoner in the Federal prison system has to endure on a regular basis. “was moved to a different prison without warning.” This is called “diesel therapy”. If the B.O.P doesn’t like you, they put you on a bus and transfer you in an uncomfortable bus ride, shackled hand and foot, for periods up to 12 hours, and perhaps over several days, to a new facility. You stay there for a day or two and… Read more »
The Russian Federation ought to imitate the hard stances of the Soviet Union (which was feared and respected by the U.S.) and react harshly.
More economic sanctions has been imposed on Russia today in advance of the large ones expected for August 24. Today is because of dealing with North Korea. Ironically, Russia, in another mistake accommodated to the Empire and supported sanctions against this country adopted by the Security Council. The US Dept of State are laughing again.
I miss the Soviet Union’s foreign policy.
The American people are occupied by the same scum who killed the Russian czar in 1917.
Russia has stopped these scumbags from destroying Syria.
US policy towards Russia is dictated by tel Aviv.
America is nothing but a puppet of Netanyahu.
As long as Russia refuses to accept the Mark of the Zionist Beast, the attacks on Russia will continue
What has she done wrong, to warrant such treatment?
Ironic, when you think of the hissy fit the US is having with Turkey, who refuse to hand over the Pastor. I wonder why he is so valuable. Even Turkey treats their prisoners kinder then the US Government.
Police State: The floggings will continue until you confess Putin interfered personally in the 2016 US election. “But sir, I do not know Putin, have never talked to him and have never seen him in person. Police State: That does not matter, just confess, the local morons will never know the difference because they believe everything we tell them.
Sick lot. So very sick, dehumanized lot! Must be treated accordingly.
Israelised……can’t you see it?
This isn’t “My America” anymore. My America died with my Grandparents generation those who shook hands with the Russian soldiers on V.E. Day.
“This is not the way the United States used to be.” ? I think it’s always been the way of the US, throughout its founding history onwards. If you want something you take it – if someone stands in your way you rub them out. Then re-write the narrative. Custer’s last stand anyone? Whoa! the list is endless. This is just another case in a long screed of Amerikan Imperial antagonism and thuggery. Personally I can’t think why anyone in their right mind would set foot in that god forsaken hell on earth. I believe that Russia should take a… Read more »
My assessment of this situation is, that these cowardly, low-life senators need to experience the same treatment that is extended to Miss Bhutina inclusively !! I suspect they’re all in a corner somewhere “jerking off” thinking about the search methods, sleep deprivation etc, Especially Mr. “brain-rot” McCain, come on Trump you coward, is aligned with your favorite group ARA . You know the gal is totally harmless to US, hell she attends one of your Universities !!!!!
This will of course be remembered when more ordinary Americans are taken prisoner by the better and saner parts of the world, as they necessarily will be.
None of those Americans will be Bloody Gina, Donald Trumpledore, or any of the 17 heads of the US Guesstapo, or Senate, which is why they can give their evil psychopathic sadism free reign… or will they?
One can always hope.