{"id":1395033,"date":"2023-12-15T22:44:18","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T22:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fair.org\/?p=9036552"},"modified":"2023-12-15T22:44:18","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T22:44:18","slug":"gessens-cancellation-cant-go-unchallenged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/12\/15\/gessens-cancellation-cant-go-unchallenged\/","title":{"rendered":"Gessen\u2019s Cancellation Can\u2019t Go Unchallenged"},"content":{"rendered":"
Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen has built an impressive career in US journalism by being a constant thorn in the side of the Russian state. That journalistic campaign entered a new chapter in November when the Russian government issued a warrant for their arrest (Washington Post<\/b>, 11\/27\/23<\/a>; AP<\/b>, 12\/8\/23<\/a>; RFE\/RL<\/b>, 12\/8\/23<\/a>; Newmark School of Journalism, 12\/11\/23<\/a>).<\/p>\n Gessen, a staff writer at the New Yorker<\/b>, gave an interview in which they spoke about well-documented Russian war crimes in the Ukrainian city of Bucha (OHCHR, 12\/7\/22<\/a>). The Russian government, forever clamping down on negative press of its military invasion of Ukraine, symbolically declared them an outlaw. (Gessen lives in the United States.)<\/p>\n