He has not been able to communicate with his family or his lawyer for almost a month and could face a sentence of up to 10 years for alleged espionage
A Polish court has identified Pablo González, the Basque journalist who was arrested last February in Poland while he was covering the war in Ukraine and who has been accused of spying for Russia, with the aliases ‘Aleksey Rubtsov’ and ‘Pavel Rubtsov’ ‘.
This is stated in a resolution dated March 3 where the Rzeszów Regional Court notified that a day earlier it had ordered “temporarily deprive the aforementioned person of liberty for a period of three months, until May 29.” In addition, it specifies that González is in the Rzeszów penitentiary center and at the disposal of the Prosecutor’s Office of that Polish region.
González has still not been able to speak to his family or his lawyer, almost a month after he was arrested on the night of February 27-28 in Przemysl, near the border with Ukraine. At first, the reasons for his arrest were not specified, but later a government spokesman reported that he was accused of spying for Russian military intelligence, the well-known GRU, for which he could be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison. jail.
Gonzalo Boye, Pablo González’s lawyer, has addressed the Spanish Embassy in Warsaw to raise the possibility that he may be granted any of the protections contemplated in the 1949 Geneva Conventions, “without this, under any circumstances, implying acknowledgment or acceptance of the imputed facts.
“The Polish authorities are not respecting the rights that my client has recognized, among others, in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union,” warned the lawyer, noting that the Spanish journalist “is being interrogated,” apparently without the presence of any lawyer.
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