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X Post by Archbishop Welby in Support of Evan Gershkovich - 2024

1. In 2020, Archbishop Welby's response to my reports of the matters treated on this website to file a false reports against me with the FTAC. The Church claimed these matters did not concern him. This post he made on X cannot be reconciled with his response to the matters I reported to him.

Main Points

1. "After being arrested in Russia one year ago, Evan is still in pre-trial detention, confined to a small cell - with his detention having recently been extended."
   
   • Why could he not make a similar statement about me: detained unlawfully for five years, by the time I wrote to him?
2. "Good Friday will mark a year of missed milestones for Evan - ..."
   
   • And I missed none?
3. "Journalists around the world should be protected, free to hold people and power top account without fear of reprisal. We pray for those hundreds of journalists currently in prison for carrying out this vital work."
   

   • The lesson, in the case of Gershkovich, was that a journalist may be arrested in Russia for asking certain questions in sensitive areas. The lesson, in my case, is: in the United Kingdom, today, a person quietly going about his life might find all the resources of the state levied against him. Or, to put it differently: in the United Kingdom, today, you cannot tell what might get you in very serious trouble.

     Why did that not disturb the Archbishop of Canterbury or move him to act, at least as he did for Gershkovich?