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Russian journalist freed after breaking news with anti-war banner

Freelance Russian journalist interrupting news with anti-war banner | Font: AFP | Photographer: KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV

Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikovawhich interrupted the main newscast last March public television anti-war proclamations and that on Sunday she was arrested near her house, she was left in freedomShe announced this today on her Facebook page.

“Now I’m at home. Everything is in order. This was the first warning. Now I know that I need to leave the house with a bag and an identity document. I called my lawyer and friends,” he wrote. Ovsyanikov in the social network.

One of his lawyers, Dmitry Zayvatov, told the official Russian news agency RIA Novosti that the detention Ovsyannikova allegedly “has something to do with his protest” last Friday on a bridge outside the Kremlin walls with a banner and two puppets with red face paint and clothes on the ground, according to a video posted that day on his Telegram channel.

On the banner journalist wrote: “Insert this is killer, his fascist soldiers. 352 children died. How many more have to die for you to stop?”

“Not to War”

Ovsyannikovaeditor of Channel One, interrupted the live broadcast of the nightly news (“Vremya”) on March 14, making statements and waving a banner against the offensive of Russian troops in Ukraine.

“No war. Put an end to the war. Don’t believe the propaganda. They lie to you here. Russians against the war,” read the banner.

Russian justice found the journalist guilty of organization or holiday public action without notice and fined 30,000 rubles ($277).

After, Ovsyannikova According to the independent Russian-language portal Meduza, she became a correspondent for the German daily newspaper Die Welt. She left this job at the beginning of July.

EFE


Source: RPP

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