HELP: Alec spoke to a kind French-speaking couple who gave him a lift to the Buarbreen glacier on Thurs July 31. We believe he may have told them about his planned route. We're trying to find this couple. They were in a camper van and drove him from Buer to the Buer restaurant.
HELP: Our friend @AlecLuhn is currently missing while hiking in Norway's Folgefonna national park. If anyone has seen him please get in touch. If people in the area can share this please do
Last seen July 31 after leaving Odda headed for Holmaskjer. Planned to go to Breidablikk
“When Ilona Tripolets ran outside last week as a Russian missile attack hit Ukraine's central city of Kryvyi Rig, she instantly realised her nine-year-old little brother German, who was at the playground, had been killed.”
https://t.co/cfEu8LOR1j
Having missed almost four years of her son's life while incarcerated in a Belarusian prison, Irina Schastnaya still wants to zip up the 14-year-old's coat, struggling to digest how tall he grew in her absence.
From Białystok:
https://t.co/ZLZ0vZQAD0
Journalist Evan Gershkovich lifts his mother, Ella Milman, as US President Joe Biden looks on, on the tarmac after arriving home at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on Thursday.
Breaking: Russia freed wrongly convicted WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich as part of the largest and most complex East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War https://t.co/MAPTNZ6Wdf
EVAN IS FREE!!! Thank you to everyone who made this happen, who supported Evan and his family over the last 491 days. We have seen the best of humanity in action. My heart is so full.
Cant wait to hug you Vania ♥️
Biden:
Today, Evan Gershkovich received a sentence of 16 years in a Russian prison, despite having committed no crime. Rather, he was targeted by the Russian government because he is a journalist and an American. We are pushing hard for Evan’s release and will continue to do so.
16 лет. Странно было ожидать чего-то другого от российского суда, но это не значит, что от этого становится легче на это всё смотреть. Ваня – самый сильный, а мы ему поможем со всем справиться и сделаем все, чтобы он как можно скорее вернулся к нам.
It’s incredibly difficult and infuriating to watch this clip of our brave friend Evan in a glass cage being sentenced to 16 years in jail simply for doing his job as a journalist
Evan should be back with his family, doing what he does best in his newsroom, on the football pitch, cooking delicious things and so much more. And not here
Evan Gershkovich's trial has begun in secret in Ekaterinburg, the city where Russia's FSB arrested him last year.
Beyond surreal to see Evan, a superb journalist, in the defendant's glass cage on these ludicrous charges, for which Russia has not provided any evidence.