FSB Thugs Treat All Foreigners As GULAG Prisoners Publication time: 17 December 2006, 13:58 Russian invaders have expelled Christoph Wanner, a German reporter for Deutsche Welle, from the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.
Mr Wanner had been taken into custody on Thursday, accused of working without the required FSB oversight by Russian authorities. He had been in Chechnya working on a report for Deutsche Welle television, DW-TV, highlighting the reconstruction work being carried out by German aid groups.
Mr Wanner was arrested in the Maskhadov (former Oktyabrsky) district of Jokhar while he was interviewing local residents. The journalist was kept in an invaders' "police station" for four hours. His accreditation, satellite phone, and videotapes were stolen by FSB thugs.
Mr Wanner was only able to complete part of his filming, since on Thursday he was taken into temporary custody by the Russian secret services agency FSB (the same guys who poisoned Russian defector in England last month under order from Putin), and on Friday told to leave the country, despite his having all the necessary accreditations, including a Russian visa, an accreditation from the Russian foreign ministry and a special accreditation for Chechnya.
"Everything was in order," he said. "But I didn't have Russian officials (FSB spies) with me and the Russian domestic intelligence services found fault with that."
Many western journalists have found it necessary to strike out on their own when reporting from the region since research trips organized by Russian invaders generally only take place in large groups. The reporters are often rushed through various locales by their minders and have little opportunity to speak with people.
According to Wanner, everything is done so quickly that most journalists must travel individually in order to do their jobs well.
A number of foreign journalists have been deported from Chechnya on grounds they did not have special permission to work.
Luckily, Mr Wanner was NOT poisoned this time with polonium-210 as the FSB sometimes does in the last time.
The Chechen Mujahideen keep wiping out FSB thugs, if caught, in Chechnya, ensuring the freedom of travel and reporting for Western journalists and visitors.
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