the russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikovathat interrupted last March the main news program on public television with anti-war proclamations, was arrested on Sunday near her home, her lawyers reported on her Telegram account.
“Marina has been arrested. We do not know your location“, they wrote under some photographs in which two police officers are seen taking the journalist away in a white van.
One of her lawyers, Dmitri Zajvatov, confirmed to the official Russian agency RIA Nóvosti the arrest of Ovsyánnikova. “I guess it has something to do with their 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 Telegram channel.
On the banner the journalist had written that the Russian president, Vladimir “Putin is a murderer, his fascist soldiers. 352 children have died. How many more have to die for you to stop? (the military intervention in Ukraine).
Ovsyánnikova, editor of Channel 1, interrupted the live broadcast of the nightly news (Vremya) on March 14 by making proclamations and brandishing a poster against the Russian military offensive in Ukraine. “No to war. End the war. Don’t believe the propaganda. Here they are lying to you. Russians against the war,” read the poster.
russian justice convicted the journalist for the organization or celebration of a public act without notification and imposed a fine of 30,000 rubles ($277). She later became a contributor to the German daily “Die Welt,” a job she left in early July, according to the independent Russian-language portal Meduza.
Source: Lasexta
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