American wanted over January 6 actions rails against U.S. and says he fears "torture" as he seeks asylum in Belarus
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Moscow - Evan Neumann, whose participation in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol landed him on the FBI's Most Wanted List, has accused American authorities of going "back to the Middle Ages" and abandoning the rule of law in their handling of ex-President Donald Trump's supporters.
Neumann fled prosecution in the U.S. by traveling to Europe, eventually making it into Russian-allied Belarus, where he's now appeared on state-run TV to complain about his home country's leadership and make his case for "asylum" in the nation often dubbed Europe's last dictatorship.
In a special broadcast late Thursday night on Belarusian state TV, Neumann spoke of a grueling journey through the forests near the Chernobyl exclusion zone to get into Belarus. He wants Belarus to grant him political asylum to avoid criminal prosecution back at home on six charges related to the January 6 attack on the U.S. Congress.