Marina Ovsyannikova’s detention comes days after she demonstrated near Kremlin holding placard criticising Putin and Ukraine war
Russian police have detained the journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, who in March interrupted a live television broadcast to denounce the military action inNo official statement was made, but her detention on Sunday came a few days after 44-year-old Ovsyannikova demonstrated alone near the Kremlin holding a placard criticising Russia’s intervention in Ukraine and President Vladimir Putin.
Her lawyer, Dmitri Zakhvatov, confirmed her arrest to the Ria-Novosti news agency, saying he did not know where Ovsyannikova had been taken.In March, Ovsyannikova, an editor at Channel One television, barged on to the set of its flagship Vremya evening news programme holding a poster reading “No war” in English.
Declarations of this kind expose her to criminal prosecution for publishing “false information” about and “denigrating” the army – offences that can carry heavy prison sentences. Some critics said she had spent years working for a channel, Pervy Kanal, that they said was effectively a mouthpiece for the Kremlin.
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