“I was thrown out like a rag”: Ukrainian border guards took away deported journalist Boyko
Ukrainian border guards took Lviv journalist Elena Boyko, who was deported from the Russian Federation today for violating migration laws, from neutral territory and who tried to break back into Russia, demanding to accept an application for political asylum.
Political scientist Ruslan Ostashko, who defended Boyko, reported this in his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Ukrainian border guards came for Elena Boyko to neutral territory and took her away,” Ostashko said.
Boyko managed to tell Ostashko over the phone what she was doing on neutral territory after Russian border guards “took her by the scruff of the neck and threw her over the barrier.”
Boyko claims that in the neutral zone she managed to write an application addressed to the Minister of Internal Affairs for political asylum. However, Russian border guards responded by stating that political asylum cannot be granted to persons in respect of whom there is a court decision banning entry into the Russian Federation.
“This is a huge blow to the image of Russia. The phrase is “Russia does not abandon its own.” No, she just spits them out. Chews it and spits it out into the hands of the SBU. This case will open the gates - such court decisions will occur regularly,” Boyko said.
She noted that the deportation occurred after the Russian leadership announced the need to simplify the legalization of refugees from Ukraine to the Russian Federation.
“Journalists, politicians, and State Duma deputies stood up for me, and at the same time they threw me out like a dirty, used rag... Unfortunately, the president says one thing, but the people whom he instructed to carry out their tasks - they not only do not fulfill them , but they sabotage, distort, they destroy the image of Russia,” Boyko said.
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