Marina Ovsyannikova, the journalist who interrupted Russia’s Channel 1 news to protest the war last March, confirmed that she had escaped from house arrest since August.
In a message shared this Wednesday on the Telegram social network, Ovsyannikova said that, since the Russian state refuses to apply the law, she refuses to comply with the coercive measure that was applied to her and remain under house arrest since March 30. September. , “get free”.
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“Dear employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service, [russo]put on a bracelet [eletrónica] similar in Putin. It is he who must be isolated from society and put on trial for the genocide of the people of Ukraine and for the fact that he has massively destroyed the male population of Russia,” Ovsyannikova said in a video also posted on Telegram. in accordance with the next.
“Dear employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service, put such a bracelet on Putin. It is he who should be isolated from society and judged for the genocide of the people of Ukraine and the fact that he massively destroys the male population of Russia.” said Marina Ovsyannikova. pic.twitter.com/tZTQpUAD5m
— NEXT (@nexta_tv) October 5, 2022
On Saturday, the journalist’s ex-husband said in an interview with Russian state television that Ovsyannikova, who was awaiting trial, had disappeared from the house that the court had designated for house arrest with her 11-year-old daughter. Two days later, the Russian Interior Ministry announced that it had added the journalist’s name to the authorities’ wanted list.
Marina Ovsyannikova, 44, came to prominence after she disrupted Russian TV news Channel 1 by holding a banner calling for an end to the war and accusing the media of “lying” and spreading Moscow propaganda. The journalist had been under house arrest since August, when she was accused of spreading false information about the Russian army after displaying, in front of the Kremlin, a poster accusing Vladimir Putin of being “a murderer” and that “his soldiers” were ” fascists”.
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Ovsyannikova, who worked at channel 1, was fired and sentenced to pay a fine of about 520 euros. The journalist left the country at that time, but she returned in the summer because of her daughter. In an interview with AFP, he said at the time that he would only rest when he could leave Russia with her.
Source: Observadora
