In January, a post I saw on Twitter/X shocked me.
“URGENT: As of now, I have ZERO access to any money,” Hüseyin Dogru wrote. “I can’t provide food for my family, including two newborns, due to EU sanctions.”
Dogru is a journalist, a German citizen living in Berlin.
After reading his post, I sent him a private message offering to order groceries and have them sent to his home.
The reply shocked me even more. “Unfortunately, I’m not allowed to accept any financial or material support,” Dogru wrote.
Dogru is the first European Union citizen known to be living inside the EU to face extrajudicial sanctions imposed by Brussels – robbing him of fundamental civil and humanitarian rights.
He’s also the first person to be sanctioned specifically for his reporting related to Palestine.
“I’m not allowed to exist anymore, I’m not allowed to provide my children with the basic necessities,” he explained on The Electronic Intifada Podcast this week.
“I can’t pay my rent, I can’t pay my lawyers and yes – I’m not even allowed to accept any kind of food, water or medicine whatsoever from third parties.”
It can’t be Russian propaganda to quote EU legal texts and to question extrajudical punishment. Those are facts. If that sounds like propaganda to you then your bias is far too strong. Russia mustn’t be used to turn the EU into a totalitarian regime. We criticise the same things at Trump and worry there. It should worry us in the EU, too.
The only relevant question is if they are a revolutionary platform for independent journalists. If they are, especially independent, it doesn’t matter where their funding comes from.
Of course Russia profits from revealed scandals but citizens profit much more. Who else but the enemy finances independent journalism? We finance it to examine Russia and Russia finances it to examine us.
Russia looked funny when their newspapers had to move. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moscow_Times Now we look funny, too, while claiming the moral high ground.
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I am quoting from your link https://data.europa.eu/apps/eusanctionstracker/subjects/175657 and your comment. My comments don’t rely on the original post.
If working with your material makes you doubt my comments, I have to ask, have you read what you post?
I swear these people must be paid to put this much effort into smearing the US’ enemies and journalists who stray from Washington’s talking points daily for years. https://lemmy.ml/post/39655060
I hope they are being paid, but so many seem to do it for free simply for the love of the game
Are they people? The last answer doesn’t make sense. He complains about a referenced article but I have copied his link and referenced wikipedia to the disadvantage of Russia.
Which requires me to point out a problem with the moderation. I would prefer if Hotznplotzn could answer so that I can know how genuine the account is.
Another issue is that removing the comments makes it impossible to share the conversation in a discussion about accounts, or to compare the comments.
But I have no idea how to balance that with the desire to have a clean comment section.
I think they’re people, and I think there’s at least two of them. At least one is German, and they all seem to keep European hours. They never answer when directly questioned about it.
A mod has removed the comment so I won’t quote everything.
As I explained, that doesn’t make sense and as an emotional outburst it doesn’t match the tone of the other comments. I trust your judgement that they are humans but this doesn’t fit.
Just chiming in to add my observation that the set of accounts does only operate during European daytime. I haven’t spent enough time to dig into whether it’s only during working hours or beyond. :D