Alina Lipp, an independent journalist reporting from Donbass, has had her assets frozen and her father's assets frozen by the German government as punishment for reporting on Ukrainian misdeeds in Donbass.
She said she has been that she is under a criminal investigation on charges that potentially could result in a three-year prison sentence. She said she was told her own testimony was not wanted.
The video above shows her telling her story. Notice the monument with the children's toys around it. This is a monument to children killed as a result of Ukrainian bombardment of Donbass, with their names and ages.
Although the video was put up recently, it evidently was made last summer, because that was when she received the notification.
Alina Lipp, who's 29, is the daughter of a Russian father and a German mother. She is a member of the Green Party and once hoped for a political career.
Lipp studied sustainable governance at the Leuphana University Lüneburg, focusing on environmental studies. She hoped for a political career as a member of the Greens party.
But after the change of government in Ukraine, she went in 2016 to see for herself what was going on. She said she found, among other things, that most of the residents of Crimea considered themselves Russians and were glad to be part of Russia.
I'm not sure of her exact comings and goings. She has evidently gone back and forth between Germany and Crimea, and Germany and Donbass, a number of times, and also spent time in Russia. Her dad has meanwhile moved to Crimea.
She set up her own Telegram channel to report from the region. She said she was the only German journalist reporting from the region.
Not only the German government, but also most of the German press condemned her reporting, she said, without anyone going to see for themselves.
She is being investigated by the Centre for Combating Internet Hate Crimes of the Public Prosecutor's Office in Lüneburg, Germany.
The Composite Eye newsletter reported she is formally charged with trying "to stir up a psychological climate, also among the population of the Federal Republic of Germany, to cause divisions in society and to destroy social cohesion due to at least distorted and sometimes false ideas."
The prosecutor referred to Lipp's statements on her Telegram channel, namely for saying the population of Donbass supported Russia's "special operation," and for speaking of a genocide in the Donbass region, where a civil war that has been ongoing for the past eight years.
Correctiv, a network of investigators, alleged that Lipp had ties with the Russian Foreign Ministry. But she rejects the accusation, saying she reports on what she sees.
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