Russia, no-war journalist Marina Ovsyannikova under house arrest

The arrest –

On Wednesday afternoon, Ovsyannikova wrote on its Telegram channel that at 6 o’clock ten policemen had broken into his home. His lawyer had then explained to the agency Afp that an investigation had been opened against him on charges of spreading false information on the actions of the Russian military forces. It is a crime introduced in the penal code

after the start of the conflict in Ukraine

: the penalty can also come

up to 15 years of imprisonment

.

The journalist’s protest –

Just a month ago, on July 15, Ovsyannikova, who had returned home after a period abroad, again expressed her dissent by exhibiting on the Sofiyskaya embankment (along the Moscow River, in the Russian capital)

a new sign

. In this the former Russian state TV journalist

had

called Putin “a killer”

and about the army he wrote: “Your soldiers are fascists.

352 children died

. How many other children have to die for you to stop? ”, Addressing the Russian president.

Why did she return to Russia?

– After her first arrest in March, Ovsyannikova, released almost immediately,

he had left Russia and moved abroad

where he worked for three months with the German newspaper The world. After this time out of her, the reporter had returned home to settle a custody dispute over her children. Since her return, Ovsyannikova has publicly supported the opposition politician Ilya Yashin in court and has published several posts against the government. A protest activity of her for which she was already in mid-July

stopped by the police

and sentenced by a Moscow court to pay

a fine of 50 thousand rubles

(almost 800 euros) again for “discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation”.
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