Comments by "hedgehog3180" (@hedgehog3180) on "Even Outside Russia, Anti-War Russians Aren't Safe 🇷🇺" video.

@inge-9280 The UK has a well documented issue with hosting Russian dark money, this goes back to long before the war, and it's not just Russians you can also find Arabian oil sheiks.
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It's not really out of genuine concern, it's more just an excuse to deny asylum to as many people as possible. It should be pretty obvious that anyone immigrating to a western country who has a charge from a dictatorship is probably being persecuted and if they aren't most western countries have the capability to figure that out on their own. However xenophobia and anti-immigration sentiments have become widespread in the west so the immigration systems turned into overblown beauracracies aimed at slowing down the process as much as possible and denying as many people as possible, and that meant being perfectly okay with listening to the Syrian government's claim that this woman is definitely a criminal.
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@JoshWDavies You're seriously trying to convince us that the guy who himself admitted to not respect consent on open air and bragged about breaking the law is not a criminal?
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Convictions in absentia aren't an exclusively Russian things, they're just fairly rare in the west. But they do still happen sometimes, like Italy has convicted some mob bosses in absentia because the bosses went underground. It can sometimes also happen if the person fled to a country that there are no extradition treaties with and they commited a major crime like large scale tax fraud, especially because in tax fraud cases you often have to go to other countries to get the money back and you have a better argument if you can show your own trial. It can also happen if the person isn't capable of standing for trial due to disability or sickness or something but that's obviously a totally different case.
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The immigration systems in the west are extremely harsh and now that it's impacting white people the broader population is finally beginning to pay attention.
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Convictions in absentia aren't an exclusively Russian things, they're just fairly rare in the west. But they do still happen sometimes, like Italy has convicted some mob bosses in absentia because the bosses went underground. It can sometimes also happen if the person fled to a country that there are no extradition treaties with and they commited a major crime like large scale tax fraud, especially because in tax fraud cases you often have to go to other countries to get the money back and you have a better argument if you can show your own trial. It can also happen if the person isn't capable of standing for trial due to disability or sickness or something but that's obviously a totally different case.
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