Marina Ovsyannikova refused to retract her antiwar statements in a Moscow court on Tuesday, after she had been interrogated for 14 hours while under arrest.
Marina Ovsyannikova, a former employee of the state-run Channel One television station in Russia who protested the invasion of Ukraine by holding up a “No War” sign on the air, was offered the chance to retract her antiwar statements in a Moscow court on Tuesday., and pleaded not guilty to administrative law charges that were filed against her.
Those charges did not stem from her protest, but from the content of a pre-recorded video she made ahead of her action, in which she explained her antiwar views and how she was “embarrassed” for being part of the propaganda machine on Channel One. “What’s happening in Ukraine right now is a true crime. And Russia is the aggressor,” she said in that video. “And the responsibility for this crime lies only on the conscience of one person, and that person is [Russia President] Vladimir Putin.”
English translation of Marina Ovsyannikova's statement before her on-air protest and subsequent arrest tonight.
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