Russian TV protester listed as wished fugitive
The case pertains to a protest in July when Marina Ovsyannikova stood on a river embankment reverse the Kremlin and held up a poster calling President Vladimir Putin a assassin
Russian journalist Marina is on Moscow’s wished listing after her ex-husband reported she escaped home arrest. (Image: Reuters)
Russian TV journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, well-known for staging an on-air protest towards Russia’s struggle in Ukraine, has been placed on Moscow’s wished listing after her ex-husband reported she had escaped from pre-trial home arrest.
Ovsyannikova, 44, was given two months of home arrest in August and faces as much as 10 years in jail if discovered responsible of spreading pretend information about Russia’s armed forces.
The case pertains to a protest in July when she stood on a river embankment reverse the Kremlin and held up a poster calling President Vladimir Putin a assassin and his troopers’ fascists.
The time period of her home arrest was on account of final till Oct. 9.
However, the state-run information outlet Russia Today reported on Saturday that she had fled alongside together with her daughter and that her whereabouts had been unknown.
“Last night, my ex-wife left the place that the court assigned her for house arrest and, together with my 11-year-old daughter, fled in an unknown direction,” it quoted her ex-husband as saying.
On Monday, her identify may very well be seen on the inside ministry’s on-line listing of fugitives from justice, accompanied by a photograph.
The circumstances of the place she went or how she left usually are not clear.
Russia handed new legal guidelines towards discrediting or distributing “deliberately false information” concerning the armed forces on March 4, eight days after invading Ukraine.
Ovsyannikova, who was born in Ukraine, got here to worldwide prominence in March by strolling out in entrance of studio cameras throughout a night information broadcast on the flagship Channel One with a placard that learn “Stop the war” and “They’re lying to you”.
She has already been fined for 2 earlier protests towards the struggle.
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