“It seems a revenge that Pablo González is preventing him from traveling outside Russia,” Gonzalo Boyé said to Berria, in relation to the case of the Basque journalist. Following the exchange of prisoners that took place on 1 August between several states, Gonzalez continues in Russia, where he has been arrested. He was released without evidence against him or obvious judgments. Gonzalez's wife, Oihana Goiriena, said that in a medical examination in a Moscow hospital fluid was detected in the lungs of the Basque journalist and Boyé said that "he is recovering" from this problem. The journalist, in her first interview after leaving prison in Russia Today (RT), reported that she was "tortured, threatened and pressured" in Polish prison, where she lost 20 kilos and said it was Washington who wanted to enter the prisoner exchange, not Poland.

Espionage charges against the journalist

The spokesman for the Polish National Prosecutor’s Office, Przemyslaw Nowak, told the media in mid-August that the trial against González was successful and, although he was not yet formally charged, stated that the trial may be in absentist – the trials that take place without the presence of the defendant. Days after these statements, the prosecutor’s office in Lublín (Poland), which last extended González’s preventive detention in May, filed espionage charges against the journalist. The Prosecutor's Office has accused González of providing Russian espionage services with information that could be "harmful" to Poland between April 2016 and February 2022, according to EFE. He is also charged with the crimes of disinformation disclosure and recognition of it for the same facts.

According to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, Article 130 of the Polish Penal Code, valid until 1 October last year, places González in prison for three to fifteen years. The government required the seizure of passports and now the Spanish Government should send another to the Basque Country for its return, but since it has a legal process in the European Union, this could delay the issue, according to EiTB.