My journalist friends are collecting signatures under an appeal against my expulsion from Latvia addressed to UN special rapporteurs on human rights. I'd be grateful if you care to sign and/or share, no matter whether you share my views or not - the case is about our common and core freedoms. Here is the doc: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… I am being evicted from my home and from the country where lived for the last 12 years, the land of my ethnic Latvian ancestors. Politicians who are doing it have deliberately selected an extrajudicial form of punishment because, as they openly state, "Latvia would lose this case in court". In short, I believe we are dealing with political persecution here. This is a revenge for my work - news analysis, investigations (one specific investigation), for the criticism of politicians on this platform and for jokes that drive them insane. What it all reminds most of is Putin's Russia. It illustrates Europe's slow drift towards the political regime that is so familiar to all of us who fled that country. I am being accused of spreading "Kremlin narratives", but punishing journalist for their uncomfortable opinions so severely is Kremlin's narrative and Kremlin's playbook in infowarrior parlance. It is new and welcome material for Kremlin propaganda which strives to paint Baltic countries in these very colours, as tyrannies not democracies.