Gonzalo Lira was detained by the Security Service of Ukraine last year
Press TV – Jan 13, 2023
Gonzalo Lira, a Chilean-American blogger and a critic of US and Ukraine presidents Joe Biden and Volodymyr Zelensky, has died in a Ukrainian prison after he was “tortured” and denied medical treatment.
“We can confirm the death of a US citizen in Ukraine. We offer our sincerest condolences to the family on their loss,” a representative of the US State Department told TASS news agency.
“We stand ready to provide all appropriate consular assistance. Out of respect to the family during this difficult time, we have no further comment,” the official added.
Lira was detained in May 2023 by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) on charges of being pro-Russian, and before he was “tortured to death”, it was known to the US State Department that he had been incarcerated in a Ukrainian prison.
His trial was set for December 21, 2023, but was reportedly postponed following a severe lung infection.
His father, Gonzalo Lira, Sr., slammed both Zelensky and Biden for murdering his son.
“I cannot accept the way my son has died. He was tortured, extorted, and incommunicado for 8 months and 11 days and the US Embassy did nothing to help my son. The responsibility of this tragedy is the dictator Zelensky with the concurrence of a senile American President, Joe Biden.”
According to a letter he wrote to his sister, posted by journalist Alex Rubinstein, Lira described the severity of his illness and how it was ignored by the authorities.
“I have had double pneumonia (both lungs) as well as pneumothorax and a very severe case of edema (swelling of the body). All this started in mid-October, but was ignored by the prison,” he wrote in the letter.
“They only admitted I had pneumonia at a Dec. 22 hearing. I am about to have a procedure to reduce the edema pressure in my lungs, which is causing me extreme shortness of breath, to the point of passing out after minimal activity, or even just talking for 2 minutes,” he added.
A picture of the letter Gonzalo Lira wrote. Click to enlarge
Apart from being a journalist, he was also a writer and filmmaker with experience working in Hollywood.
He reportedly had moved to Ukraine in 2010 and married a local woman, and started living in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city not far from the Russian border.
In recent weeks, Tucker Carlson, a US journalist, and American entrepreneur Elon Musk had been lobbying for Lira’s release, after Washington maintained silence over him.
Carlson, citing Lira’s father, said the US administration “clearly supported his imprisonment and torture.”
“Gonzalo Lira, Sr. says his son has died at 55 in a Ukrainian prison, where he was being held for the crime of criticizing the Zelensky and Biden governments. Gonzalo Lira was an American citizen, but the Biden administration clearly supported his imprisonment and torture. Several weeks ago we spoke to his father, who predicted his son would be killed,” Carlson wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
Gonzalo Lira, Sr. says his son has died at 55 in a Ukrainian prison, where he was being held for the crime of criticizing the Zelensky and Biden governments. Gonzalo Lira was an American citizen, but the Biden administration clearly supported his imprisonment and torture. Several… https://t.co/F0nOG9qGvv
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) January 12, 2024
Earlier, Musk had appealed to Zelensky with a request to explain the arrest and detention of Lira, and had demanded answers on the status of Lira from Biden.
An American YouTuber has been imprisoned for 5 years in Ukraine, and allegedly tortured, for making videos.
This is not ok. https://t.co/NPbvARtnde
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 10, 2023
Musk also questioned how it was possible that a US citizen is in prison in Ukraine after Washington had “sent over a $100 billion” to support Kiev in the conflict with Moscow.
It would be a “serious problem” if it turned out that the journalist was being persecuted for “simply criticizing Zelensky,” Musk added in December.
Previously, Lira was arrested in 2022 when his disappearance made international headlines, but last year’s arrest, according to his father, came days “after condemning Joe Biden and Kamala Harris,” when he was trying to escape Ukraine.
“Why was he not detained earlier?” Lira Sr. asked. “When he was let go the previous year, he continued the same criticism against the war.”
LOL! Didn’t he make a twitter or some other social media video a few months ago claiming he was skipping town, jumping bail, and “escaping” from Ukraine on his motorcycle? It was posted on these very pages.
Most likely this is just another publicity stunt. Are we to believe that he skipped bail, went to live in Western Europe like he said, then somehow grew a conscience for insulting Ukrainian “law”, went back, cried and apologized to the authorities, was re-jailed, and finally died in prison?
Lira must believe the average Joe is a complete retard to believe his nonsense and stunts. Wait! He may be right: didn’t the scamdemic prove that?
The white house and its sabbatean cult members should be blamed for Lira’s death.
I suppose if one of the sabbatean cult members in general were captured and imprisoned the
biden and blinken would rescue them. These neocons’ who have taken over the USA are racists and corrupted to the core. May their demise come quickly.
We spend our time lobbying and appealing while our courageous researchers and reporters get tortured and killed. How can anyone not realize that the govt fiddling and diddling is just to waste time while the globalist steamroller moves along uninhibited, and many of those we look to for leadership take such impotent action that it looks more like collaboration?
How unlikely is this…just like so called ‘Rixon Stewart’ who runs this this MI6 honey trap… feeding you all nonsense..
be sure to take a side….be sure to…
I’m sickened at the news…I hope Russia will punish the Jew Coup in Ukraine with executions.
Fake / psyop just like Epstein’s ” death “
Gonzalo is dead. His dad said that. He was tortured. Gonzalo said that another inmate was told to rough him up. The guy apologized later but Gonzalo did suffer a great deal. He wrote that. Maybe some of you guys should learn to read or listen to what he and his dad said.
Why should somebody mend his lungs after he did all that smoking?
This crimean war is as fake as the previous one.see photographs of the former crimean war for a good laugh.jarid boosters yt
@Mike D
Good comment. But I still see there’s a few on here who fall for this retarded propaganda. I guess Shakespeare was lying when he wrote: “All the world’s stage.”
I find it strange that to stay in a country like Ukraine at this time and criticize it online. Setting yourself up.
What you’ll hear about this in the THICKBrit lickspittle (((Press))):
SWEET FCK ALL!!!
Biden does not need to say anything . the impulse the
jew CIA conspirationists would give to the Ukra intel.
Sad and unnecessary.
He simply could not grasp that a US passport is not a Get Out Of Jail Free card. Musk and Carlson are two rich and powerful men who don’t understand what being a REGULAR human amounts to in this world: Nothing.
Yes is tragic for his family and friends. But ordinary citizens must know that if you go to a foreign country — during wartime! — you have to keep your mouth shut and play by the rules. If you have something political to say, make good notes and say it WHEN YOU GET OUT.
That said, Gonzo gave some good information when the war started and I appreciate him for that. And he could very easily have taken that information to Hungary and YouTube it there, where he was safe. He was not safe where he was and it is regrettable, but understandably, that the regime he messed with got back at him for being reckless and feckless.
RIP Gonzalo Lira. Next time around use your head.
Victoria Nuland should be brought for a tribunal asap!
Here is why he was killed. He knew he would be killed.
https://thesaker.is/gonzalo-lira-on-victoria-nuland-must-see/
“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”
“Let us be thankful for the fools.”
@Chesty…you make some interesting and entertaining comments sometimes…but wtf? If Rixon is running a honey trap…are you the honey? I thought honey is sweet, you sound more bitter and twisted than sweet…
Could never work that guy out, if he was legit, a grifter, or intel. Remember thinking if he was legit he must have been slightly nuts, surely he must have known he was dicing with death by putting out the stuff he did. If the Ukraine regime wanted him dead last year they could have just shot him and blamed it on a Russian missile. It is obvious it was the Americans who wanted him kept in jail, if they wanted him released he would have been. Sad if true he is dead.
Lira was an endearing rogue puffing away between shags and rants. That’s all I know about the actual man I saw in many videos.
There’s a very telling line.
Gonzalo Lira: “I don’t have a dog in this fight”.
I’ve no idea if this statement is true of false, but we live in a highly secretive world, where your only chance of progress is to ‘speculate’.
I believe Lira had a dog in this fight, he may have had several dogs in this fight. He may have worked for various interests. I can think of four.
After his first release, he should’ve left UKraine. He had a wife and lambs.
Sorry, but so many conflicting interests, so many strings, he became confussed, believing he was reasonably safe, and stayed.
Whatever Lira knew, only around 10% came out on his videos. When you’re in that position, everyone is throwing information at you. Lira knew too much, like Jill Dando.
dont cross the kike mafia in their backyard..
ffs America grow a pair & drag the neocon kosher nostra
out on the street and hang, draw & quarter the traitors
A Military Coup is the only solution to get the bastards out
Little story.
I had a friend who was a proper traveller. Literally a very small bag, and he’d be off. This happened before we became friends.
He was in Uganda when Idi Amin was in power. Things started to get hairy, so he tried to make his way to the border with Ugandan troops in chase. He only just made it. Communication was obviously down, or the border guards messed up.
You’ve got to know when to leave. If you’re out there Ray, I miss you.
Looks like the Ukes took a leaf out of ZOGUK’s book in its on-going ‘torturing to death’ of of Julian Assange..
No wonder Zelly & Richie Shitsak are such good bath-house butt-buddies…
One thing Scott Ritter got right was fingering Lira as an SBU mole…A CiA prevaricator smoking out Russian sympathisers in the Ukie junta… and many of them are really dead…
Yes that’s right….Gonzoid the sex tourist was an asset…now of course you will all clasp your hands and shake your heads..
But get this…maybe they’ve ‘wound up’ the operation…just a thought…
https://www.scottritterextra.com/p/gonzalo-lira-the-sbu-and-information/comments
Lot of dickheads infiltrating the comments, even more than usual.
Evidently this proves the Jews got him. RIP Lira
The acting on the stills on par with THE Three Stooges
Von Gassit–calling it a honey trap simply means that gov. gets to find out people’s opinions when we treat the web-site trustingly. (My own approach is to speak at 90 degrees most of the time)
@chesterton.’slavland chronicles ‘ has a good article exposing both of them.
@ Von Gassit…
Wittingly or unwittingly…you are being watched….
….As Lewis notes.. honey traps are often ahem ‘allowed’ to operate as barometers of opinion…perhaps to evaluate what works and what doesn’t in the medium…for example a veterans today writer (Jack Heart) has publicly accused Henry Makow of being NSA…I have no idea whether it’s true or not…do you?.. but…. all media should give pause for thought…
I thought most would regard regime snooping a given… after all if you live in the West you have a ZOG…Whether Mr Rixon Stewart knowingly approves or not ..is open to speculation…
But as you may observe the gentleman seldom censors.. and it is his forum…although he could be held responsible for what he publishes..
So anyway fuck the 77th..
It’s perhaps odd why he would have been arrested in 2022 and detained for a few days but then released? Then again arrested in 2023, yet later goes on a motorbike to the Hungary border all the time broadcasting this online, then re-arrested – now dead. A bone-fide critic would’ve been shot by the Ukies or the very least, deported very rapidly.
Another person apparently critical of the GWO was Gilad Atzmon who used to publish articles here on a fairly regular basis. He appears to have gone to earth in Athens during the CONVID crisis . Given the on-going massacres in Gaza it is strange that he seems to have become mute. Has he been banned from here or is he just concentrating on music? His articulacy was impressive.
First off, before any blame Gonzalo for videographing as he did, further targeting him for his criticism of both the Zelensky and Biden regimes, we need to further examine the worldwide political situation we are faced with.
The following is from Mr. Phillip Giraldi, a former CIA Case Officer and Army Intelligence Officer with 20 years experience overseas in EU and Middle East, working terrorism cases:
https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=280018 Israel Goes to Court for the Crime of Genocide:
(About the only hot dog stand they are capable of running (look it up): A video filmed before a live audience, where Zelensky and friends play “Hava Nagila” on the piano with their hot dogs. No society except criminal would even permit broadcasting such publicly lewd behaviour; it is very disgusting. 😛 )
So a simple request, the release of one US American citizen after considerable foreign aid was rendered be accomplishable? As an act of goodwill?
Not in your life, as Nathaneal Kapner, now a Russian Orthodox Priest raised in a Jewish home revealed:
https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=280035 Alex Jones Vs +Brother Nathanael (video)
That of the safety and well being of the average US citizen is the last thing on their mind. They being very narcissistic, it is all about them and not the country they were brought up in, the only ones permitted dual citizenship.
So enthralled are they with murder (they are Bolsheviks,) the late former Secretary of State under Clinton, Jewess Madelyn Albright considered the sacrifice of 500,000 Iraqi children as a plausible, acceptable gain.
So, the murder of one US citizen was an acceptable sacrifice to Moloch, with mafia styled, silencing a critic of their hand picked Ukrainian leader, after severe beatings and denial of medical care.
To them, Gonzalo Lira was just another Arab journalist. With true journalism suppressed, the US is now a 3rd world country, along with all other countries in the British Common Wealth.
R.I.P. Gonzalo Lira, my friend.
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that change darkness into light, and light into darkness; that change bitter into sweet, and sweet into bitter! … That justify the wicked for a reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! Isaiah 5:20,23 (Jewish Publication Society)
With further ado:
During the US Afghanistan withdrawal, Biden failed to fully evacuate all US Federal employees, leaving them to seek their own way out or deal with the Taliban. Again, Déjà vu:
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/palestinian-americans-family-members-ignored-biden-administration
Only dual citizens and non-citizens (even non-vetted) have priority.
Divers[e] weights, and divers[e] measures, both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD.” Proverbs 20:10 (Jewish Publication Society)
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that change darkness into light, and light into darkness; that change bitter into sweet, and sweet into bitter! … That justify the wicked for a reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! Isaiah 5:20,23 (JPS)
There are six things which the LORD hateth, yea, seven which are an abomination unto Him: [1] Haughty [arrogant] eyes, [2] a lying tongue, and [3] hands that shed innocent blood; [4] A heart that deviseth wicked thoughts, [5] feet that are swift in running to evil; [6] A false witness that breatheth out lies, and [7] he that soweth discord among brethren.” Proverbs 6:16-19 (JPS)