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the journalist Marina Ovsyannikova (44), who became famous last March for interrupting the Russian live broadcast with an anti-war banner, was arrested this Sunday by Vladimir Putin’s regime, her lawyer said.
The lawyer Dmitry Zachvatov confirmed the arrest to the news agency Ria-Novostibut he warned that he did not know where his client had been taken to be hosted, which is common – and no less delicate – in the political cases of the Russian regime.
“I suspect this is connected in one way or another to his protest act,” the lawyer added, according to the news agency. AFP.
Furthermore, a message posted by Ovsyannikova’s entourage on the journalist’s Telegram account reported: “Marina was arrested. There is no information on The place is located“.
The message was accompanied by three pictures in which Ovsyannikova can be seen while two police officers lead her to a white vanafter stopping her while she went for a walk Cycling.
Marina Ovsyannikova broke into the news with a handwritten sign in her hand that said “No War” in English. AFP photo
it wasn’t there until now no official statement. The arrest came a few days after Ovsyannikova demonstrated alone in front of the Kremlin with a banner that evoked the deaths of Ukrainian children during the military intervention in Ukraine and called President Vladimir Putin a “murderer”.
This demonstration, today in Russia, can be punished with a law against the publication of “false information” e “insults” to the armycharges that can lead to very high prison sentences.
After several months of working abroad, for example for the German newspaper Die Weltthe reporter announced in early July syou come back to russia settle a custody dispute over their two children.
Who is Marina Ovsyannikova
While it is still very expensive in Russia to speak out against Vladimir Putin’s government and Russian police have arrested thousands of protesters in Moscow and St. Petersburg, one of the heroines who raised her voice was Marina Ovsyannikova.
The journalist and editor of the Russian channel Channel One, which on Monday evening, March 14 interrupted information banner in hand and the cry of “No to war”.
However, before Russian viewers saw her protest venture on the Vremya news, Ovsyannikova posted a video on social media apologizing for what is happening in Ukraine: “It’s a crime and Russia is aggressionr “.
Marina Ovsyannikova, when she worked for Channel One. Photo Reuters
And he added in the video that “the responsibility for this aggression falls on a man: Putin. My father is Ukrainian, my mother is Russian and they have never been enemies ”, stressed the journalist who wore a necklace with the colors of the Ukrainian and Russian flag.
“Unfortunately in the last few years I worked for Channel One. I did propaganda for the Kremlin and I am very ashamed, for allowing people lying from television screens and that the Russian people were zombified”, Stressed Ovsyannikova at the time.
A few minutes after the Telegram video, Ovsyannikova interrupted the live news by shouting and carrying an anti-war banner.
“No war. Stop the war. Don’t believe the propaganda. Here they are lying to you. Russi Against War (Russians Against War), “the banner read as she shouted” Stop the war! Not to war! “.
After that act, she was arrested and transferred to the Ostankino Police Station in Moscow. She was subsequently released after paying a fine in rubles. Now no one knows where it is.
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Source: Clarin
