California teacher Sarah Krivanek, barely able to see straight from what she calls “hell on Earth” conditions in a prison camp in Russia, stepped foot into freedom at LAX Friday.
Originally from Fresno, Krivanek was teaching English in Russia.
For 11 months she says she was forced to work at labor camps after being convicted of using a knife to protect herself in a domestic fight with her boyfriend in Moscow. She shared photos of how she was left in that beating."When they moved me to the colony, it shocked my world," Krivanek said."This kind of work is like slavery; you work in the factory where the conditions were really, really bad.
"She’s like a bulldog on a meat wagon. I think the Russians should be scared of her," Krivanek said."Without her I don’t know if anyone would’ve found me to be honest." Krivanek says she had no help from the U.S. government in getting her release, except the flight home which friends have helped set up a GofundMe account to repay the loan, among other necessities she’ll need now that she’s back home.
“I’m overwhelmed, I feel self-conscious because I’m in prison – you know what I mean? I don’t look well, I look tired,” she said."These clothes are literally clothes I found in prison."
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