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ah, the sport and politics clash at the olympic velo russian athlete in tokyo thinks protection from poland saying she was forced to leave the games against her will. so what is her case say about repression and human rights in how homeland this is inside school. ah, ah. hello, welcome to the program. i'm has them speaker christina simone, new sky. i went to the tokyo olympics with dreams of representing bella. ruth, at the world's biggest sporting event. but the dramatic end to her campaign has triggered a political and diplomatic dispute. princess, as bella, russian officials tried to force her to fly home when she complained about being

entered into a race she hadn't prepared for seeking the protection of japanese police at the airport. she then found refuge at the polish embassy in tokyo and was given a humanitarian visa. and a rushing, the limpid committee says it pulled cmos guy from competition because of her psychological state. but the athlete says her life was in danger. you on the right when you are still, they made it clear that upon my return home, i would definitely say some form of punishment. and that if i refused and ran in the $200.00 mates race, i would be fired and kicked out of the national team. there were also thinly disguised hints that more would await to me. the key phrase is when they said that the decision to return home was not taken by us. it was taken by other people and we were ordered to follow through. at the moment, i just want to safely get to europe. i would really like to continue my sporting

career because i'm only 24 and i had plans to participate in at least 2 more olympic games for the international olympic committee wants answers from bella, russian officials and has launched a formal investigation in terms of her safety and security i think we've dealt with most of the issues that needed to be dealt with. we have decided to launch not surprisingly, a formal investigation which will be led by the i see ministration. we need to establish the full facts. we need to hear everyone involved, that obviously can take time. and in the meantime, obviously, our 1st concern is, is for the athlete of the athletes case unfolded in tokyo in ukraine and belo, russian activists was found dead in a park vitaly. she shall lead an organization in kia, which helped below russians fleeing persecution. elisa launched the murder investigation exiled opposition leader that lana. c con oscar fears. something

similar could happen to her. not everybody who is in villa rules and who have to take about them. so because to be see the resumes, maybe not so from and you can reach if, if they want to do something, i can disappear. you moment i understand that, but i should do what i'm doing. i cancelled because i'm you know, i feel this is this responsibility for the future of my fans with the same as all those fighting the woman feel the responsibility. i know that even if i disappear one day, this movement will continue without me. bell russian governments crackdown on descent has worsened since president alexander lucas shanker, was reelected. last august, thousands of protesters were arrested, including several linked to svetlana to her nob sky. as campaign she fled to

neighboring with you. i knew and has been drumming up international pressure. lucas shanker to step down in may. a ryan in flight, heading to lithuania, was forcibly diverted to men's, where police detained an opposition journalist on board romano pro to say, which is accused of being evolved in so called terrorist activity. and last month bell, russian police rated the offices of 14 rights groups, non governmental organizations, and independent media outlets. the well, let's bring in august. now joining us from warsaw is anna toll co tower international relations manager of the bell, russian sports solidarity foundation. the organization helps athletes who faced repercussions for expressing political views in brussels. we have a cat, a lantern chief executive of the center for european policy studies,

and also in warsaw, valerie sep carlo bell, russian opposition, leader and former presidential candidate a warm welcome to all of you. so anatole, if i could start with you then 1st because i know that you have spoken to christina, tim and sky. so just fill us in. first of all, what has she told you about all this? i truly and now she's okay. now now she's a polish embassy in your and she's getting better after all the. ready shocking events which turned her out of the southern for her from senor and the very simple mistake of team officials who failed to ensure the doping distant program for her for the team members. so they're mixed. well,

they're really even for extra $400.00 me this women they tried to persuade christian to participate in this event about. it's not her discipline, there was no any politics or the beginning of the story. she just refused for reasonable grounds. she was twist health and live for somebody's mistakes. and all the sudden the political decision was taken a means to grip her and say, come back to means kill against her. will she informed about such a situation? and she managed home builders and own vision validates, have carlow, what's, what's likely, what do you fear is likely to happen to her family as, as a result, as well as i'm the i'm over the left

in the ukraine. i just wanted to say that he is say, now when he is in your grade, however, it would be, we know the story about the thought is just so that he was found dead just several hours ago. he was hang in the forest. i key. so most probably, it was also the results of the actions of bella russo special forces i or somebody who rates with ukraine. so i don't think that somehow they can influence their parents. however, we had the news that they already approached their parents probably trying to persuade and therefore it still showed them back to minutes ago, you know that they captured several people's and they started to stick on camera

that deborah is fine. the re gym is good. we have to worry about in bill or was that happened when luka sent us re jim, hijacked the knack roster and they brought them on the beach to breathe and then she started to speak what they wanted. and the same thing happened with one of our athletes, m, m, i champion and also to be in their hands and they are old. so he also started to speak what they want from him to, to talk about. so, you know, i think that the re, jim ones now the same christina would be started to speak about good things about them, but nobody trust them any or, and what i expect, i expect, but most probably the decision will be taken out. the national olympic committee from the international committee and the billing still will continue to participate

on the neutral fat blacks in this olympics, carolina given what bella ruth has done to previous dissenters to this surprise, you at all? no, no, no. it's totally in line to get the patients or what this look, i shall go. government is doing. i mean, it's even sometimes look shank or has government or even sometimes ahead of the other states. like, for example, at home state, they have their own with love, the neighboring country. and they called back that i'm back there just because a lot embassy over there had put on a lack of the position. and they go back the investor. i mean, the, you was late to react to bed and it's only, and it's monday, part of may. we take off the intersection of the lane from athens city right now. the you and both even harder sanctions. but we have, are you going to be published about a month ago that you could do much more? and for example, recall all at once and just 3 different,

i think relations and finally with the barbershop. but i think the front of things we can do, for example, extending group of people to which sanctions apply at the moment. that's about 166 persons. you could say that there's a lot and their assets are frozen. for example, these people have money on bank accounts and you don't be countries, the assets are frozen. but i think we can do much more than that to be much more restrictive and to be much more forceful against us. go and talk and talk about what this has has someone else told you and your organization about how long term plans right now, what she plans to do from here actually, tomorrow she comes to war. so our and we're planning to arrange a special meeting for her ministry of sports. and to reason the analogous along the promised to. ready try to meet her requests because she

wants to continue close for the career. this is quite possible and we are ready to help to assist with that additional negotiation with the polish officials and also polish. and i will see the late afflicted duration. so the main invention to. ready come to a safe place to re union with, with your family because her husband also had to leave from the country and because he was afraid of also repressions from this side of therapist and then to start thinking about. busy the future plans within her career. she told us today she has plans for 2 next olympics. so she is quite young and perspective

and we would like to help her to assist her to be per bad for about event because the main thing is her played her life and her career. now let me call to what extent has the seminar sky as case expose the tactics of the bell russian regime on de luca shanker? well, i have a question. i would say a couple of all the symptoms and you know, just all the lamps lined lamps on this one junior. we also told that villaroo sport, delegations, they were wise guys, and they were looking after sportsmen. so they didn't allow them to be in contact with their representatives. are the state so they aware people would

leave the country. oh, would leave us or do you would be a big things. well, the reputation of the country was afraid off and we remember somebody who fled in fact, areas believe the soviet geisha and stayed in front of the time. i think that this is the same symptoms, actual enough be in house. we are on the bring all the collapse of this regina and when you been sports, ma'am. that's very well. i'm proud of the story jim. they want to use sports. definitely extend. class even sports, man women decided to stay away from these times. i think it's very,

very symptomatic and it's kind of where you won't be very so carolina how should the e you react to this? now? i don't know you, you kind of touched on this a little earlier. and part of the reason i'm asking is because when roman for to say which the opposition journalist was taken off that ryan air flights earlier this year, there was this storm of criticism internationally and the, you almost immediately him post economic sanctions on bell roof. but clearly it haven't changed, their behavior has it. so what do they do now? i mean, of course they have the sanction, but i think they can do much more just a magic level. they can do much more that it's not a thing. the child behind i preach this merger, merge of this journalist and ukraine underlines, i mean the secret police be at the k t b or the secret police as possibly, i mean,

it's almost everywhere. so as long as we have these diplomatic relations under the cover of diplomats, she could police can be active and all europe congresspeople will say whatever have been doing in our territory. i mean like russia is also used to do all extent. so as we are much more forceful, let's say trying to trace what these different, different much so called different monster doing into different countries. or you mentally, pre diplomatic relations for the company in question, become be much more parcel and make sure that these things happen anymore. or happen less anyway, there's so much parallel between debate and government acts and debate the russian government, for example, has acted in poisoning of the position figures and u. k. i mean what that is doing is of the same kind. however, i would warn against too much kind of optimism or hopelessly that these things will have rapid effect. i'm very happy to see that this. i mean,

the elected president of russia, the kind of sky is received everywhere around the world was treated by, by last week is know, and probably for me, i remember correctly was an item before she gets good support, but we'll have to company to do this. eventually, for years to undermine this regime as soon as we can, but i will take, i think it may not yours because russia is behind and russia strongly supporting or putting a somebody supporting the british interview and we've seen and syria how this can turn around. i mean, indication, syria, we talked 10 years ago, that would be forced to sit down very soon. but look where we are today is again, and it's still there. all right, we'll come come back to some of that in a moment, but i just want to come back to anatole for a moment. it should to the relevant sporting authorities have done more to help the seminar sky. i mean, this all happened very quickly, and the court of arbitration in sport denied her. her legal bid to,

to run in the 200 meters in the olympics earlier this week, saying that she didn't have enough evidence to, to make the, make her case for that. what do you, what do you take from from that was there perhaps a reluctance to get involved in a political and diplomatic. this dispute a pillar. we saw our good level of engagement of european all in the committee international it because we just had to really not so many time do not so much time to response, but they interfered immediately just one hour after they. ready have been informed about. ready the case of christmas donaldson, unfortunately, my daughters, the delegation tried to do like a special operations. so the christine, i was informed that she has to go to. ready airport, just one hour before she was actually taken from her apartment.

so the plan, the action with no time to response. if with you about the international for those arbitration at home division as procure, they did not dismiss the appeal of the whole staff. they dismissed only one part of the deal, a request for c. and the case is still under consideration of the girls and we would like to have a final decision just to point out. ready just to fix a few show that there was a fact why a lation of her rise and that she was eager to participate in this. of course, such as we see on the, on this example should really be working 24 hours 7 days

for sure. unfortunately, due to these differences in time and time sheets, and also due to the complexity of the situation, christina was in police with limited access or communication meals. so there should be some more efficient remedies liberated, taking into account these case. but what could have been done by the international sport for this was actually done, and we are grateful for their interference and help international because we do open the new investigation against the national and become a go go to in this to get my for really, christine at the moment that case validates have caught hello. how would you characterize the current climates in belarus right now in terms of free speech? has it, has it gotten worse since that disputed election in august 2020?

definitely much worse because the political party saw band practically old newspapers, independent newspapers, even local newspapers have been very, very small newspapers that cover the life for, for some local communities. they also banned practically, they know in joe's now in the bill and it's a really very visible crime down from the sides of the regime on the civil society . and then i would try to clear the field, you know that it would be, you know, any attempts for resistance, even peaceful demonstration, hold the human race and also the wild. so i the integration with human rights is getting worse and worse. we have now about

only think a little visual recognize political if they need our country and the novel administrative arrest rise in also. so you know, just, you know, they were about 40000 people that got through presence after the presidential elections for 2000. if you can compare with the polish silly daughters the largest central and new report to the 2nd world war that in poland, they were about 10000 people. i brought through prisons and poland, 4 times bigger than bill roost. so you can imagine the scale of the terror that bill roost people society faces now from beside to the sprint you. but from another point we are pre optimistic because one day it will blow up

and there are no other way, but we will definitely win because you know, just, it's impossible now to breathe. but you know, the society cannot leave the same way. and i'm free to call and said, all right, you know, we, on the brink of down to this ridge, you, let's, let's give what's probably going to be the last word on this to cow, lana. do you agree with that sentiment? are you hopeful for the future, and what would you want to see more off from other nations in, in applying pressure on bella? ruth, i'm hopeful as well, but we shouldn't be kind of so i mean, optimistic sense that it will just be a matter of some weeks. no, it can take some time, but we have to be extremely result. very clear that and what we do and what we support, and i think this is not only the case for or you can just hold the case for all european countries, but all the confusion that we have to be on in the world as

a whole. have to be very supportive of the elected residential candidate. this straight line up the final anyway, she's received all of the girls, he's travelling all over, but that's we have to continue to have the pressure because at the give up the pressure. i mean, because i will say i wrong, and he will say on a powerful another which is also likely. so that is extremely important to the result of all the different countries and increase our sanctions. reduce the magic presence eventually be much more forceful. eventually, activities of the secret police of the going to be on the federal conference, but also all of the been russians who have some links with the government. we're having links over here for them to look at bank accounts we beneficial have and you don't being concrete about their relatives who are studying and european universities, which is also happening on that if they are against for example of these, please offer belushi. we have to be very forceful against the iraq which of those

which are part of the game. and that's we can do much more somebody in the building already. of course we have strategies or actions, but we have to do much more just to show that we are not giving up and the supporting who is the person who's the elected. and we want to have a change in the. all right. we'll have to leave it there. good discussion. thanks very much gentlemen. thanks for being on an inside soy. anatole co, tao cadell atlanta. and valerie said, carlos, thanks for me with us. and thank you for watching. as always, some of the can see the program again. any time by visiting our website at gina dot com and for further discussion, you can go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com, forward slash ha inside to you can also join the conversation on twitter handle. there is at a j in size for, for me, haven't speak and the whole team here, bye for now. the

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