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Global Threads @[email protected] · 2025-02-12 · 15:35 UTC

🇺🇸 Americans Still in Russian Custody
🔴 Despite the release of teacher Marc Fogel, several U.S. citizens remain detained in Russia.

🪧 Ksenia Khavana: 12 years for a $51 donation to a Ukraine charity.

🪧 Stephen Hubbard: 72-year-old sentenced for fighting with Ukraine.

🪧 Others face charges from espionage to drug offenses—raising concerns over political motives.

#Russia #HostageDiplomacy #Ukraine #US

#russia #hostagediplomacy #ukraine #us

C. @[email protected] · 2023-09-14 · 01:53 UTC

@metacurity

Ummm...

Would this be the same White House who announced - just two days ago - that it was unfreezing six billion dollars of Iranian assets and releasing Iranian prisoners in exchange for the release of 5 U.S. prisoners?

Do as I say, not as I do...

#iran #hostage #HostageDiplomacy #sanctions #billion #dollars #hypocrite

#iran #hostage #hostagediplomacy #sanctions #billion #dollars

udo m. rader has moved @[email protected] · 2023-09-04 · 10:49 UTC

That's something new: #Iran now even arrests #EU diplomats on the usual weird espionage charges.

I can kind of understand that some people are trying to keep this under the public radar, but what this boils down to is #HostageDiplomacy and the European public has every right to know about it. A despicable, hypocritical regime that resorts to criminal methods.

#diplomacy #ForeignPolicy

NYTimes: E.U. Official From Sweden Is Imprisoned in Iran for Over 500 Days https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/04/world/europe/iran-sweden-prisoners-johan-floderus.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

#foreignpolicy #diplomacy #hostagediplomacy #eu #iran