They also suggested they could arrange for her mother to be killed if she did not sign cooperation papers.

I mean… if the FSB says they are going to kill your mother I’d take the threat seriously. They’ve demonstrated that they can more or less kill with impunity on British soil… presumably in Russia they can do much worse.

Ok I’ll come forward. My co-conspirators are Trump and Netanyahu

That’s a shame.

What if her story is fake, and she was a plant all along?

Can anyone trust her ever again?

And Western (neo)-Liberal nations do the same thing to their activists.

…in both cases it’s a type of fascism. The suppression and repression of non-violent political popularism is ALWAYS a form of fascism. Even when that suppression is done by ostensibly liberal democratic societies.