The journalist Russian Marina Ovsyannikovawhich interrupted last March the main newscast of the public television with anti-war proclamations and that this Sunday she was arrested near her house, she was left in freedomshe reported today on her Facebook page.
“I’m home now. Everything’s fine. It was a first warning. Now I know that you have to leave the house with a bag and an identity document. I thank the neighbor who was nearby at the time. He brought my things and called to my lawyer and friends,” he wrote Ovsyanikova in the social network.
One of his lawyers, Dmitri Zajvatov, told the official Russian news agency RIA Nóvosti that the detention of Ovsyánnikova allegedly “has something to do with his protest” last Friday on a bridge near the Kremlin walls with a banner and two dolls with red paint on their faces and clothes on the ground, according to a video posted that day on his channel from Telegram.
On the banner, journalist had written: “Putin it’s a assassin, his fascist soldiers. 352 children have died. How many more have to die for you to stop?”
“Not to the war”
Ovsyánnikovaeditor of Channel 1, interrupted the live broadcast of the nightly news (Vremia) on March 14 by making proclamations and brandishing a poster against the Russian military offensive in Ukraine.
“No to the war. Put an end to the war. Don’t believe the propaganda. They are lying to you here. Russians against the war,” read the banner.
The Russian Justice found guilty the journalist by organization o celebration of a public act without notification and fined him 30,000 rubles ($277).
After, Ovsyánnikova she became a contributor to the German newspaper “Die Welt”, a job she left in early July, according to the independent Russian-language portal Meduza.
EFE