On May 31, “Voice of America” published an interview with Anna Neistat, director of legal affairs for the Docket project of the Clooney Foundation for Justice, about the prospects for legal prosecution of aggressor’s propagandists.
According to Neistat, this will apply to everything “that was said on air or on their pages on social networks, everything that was printed, as well as all those who led it behind the scenes,” including “those who gave them instructions – about the main and not the editors-in-chief, as well as other important cogs of this machine,” because “when you analyze their statements, it is immediately clear that their narratives are very well coordinated.”
A spokeswoman for the Clooney Foundation indicated that “there are two main approaches to this that we are exploring,” namely the charge of incitement to genocide, with an appeal to the International Criminal Court with a request to prosecute and open an investigation, and also the filing of charges of propaganda of war in the jurisdiction of “several European countries”.
A spokeswoman for the Foundation said that “we have worked in partnership with several academics and lawyers, and have also done our own research, so that we can have an argument to make when we need to explain that events that occur fit this crime.” Let us recall that the experts of our Association, including Professor Borys Babin, carried out relevant developments on the qualification of genocide propaganda, publishing and presenting them.
Anna Neistat added that “we are now focused on bringing the most obvious Russian propagandists to justice” and “we are asking prosecutors to write closed arrest warrants” because “we want them to travel to other countries and be arrested there”, “so it’s better to let they’ll be guessing about it.”
These statements not only caused the predicted hysteria of the Kremlin talking heads, but also the lightning-fast propaganda spasms of their Crimean henchmen. Thus, the “Sevastopol media” began to write about the “insidious” “bastard” Clooney, “just a Hollywood actor” who is “absolutely inadequate” and “opened his mouth on us, and it turned out to be stinking.”
It is possible that the Crimean information service of the aggressor has “reasonable premonitions” for such hysteria, since “by a certain coincidence” on the website of the Clooney Foundation on May 31, an article was posted about the aggressor’s persecution of the Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, Nariman Jelal.
The foundation writes that “Jelal was arrested after his participation in the Crimea Platform summit, which aims to coordinate the international response to the Russian occupation of Crimea” and that the “protege of the Russian authorities, the “deputy prime minister” of the peninsula, threatened that the summit would boomerang on its participants” and that during Dzhelal’s “interrogations” he was told: “While you were writing your articles, we did not touch you. Why did you go to the “Crimean Platform”?”
Now the Crimean talking heads of the aggressor have two “consolations” left: to demand a “ban” of films with Clooney’s participation and to declare that “any Russian journalist, even from some of the last opposition media outlets,” allegedly falls under the new investigation’s scope. However, such movements will clearly not be able to influence further events.
