A journalist who protested Russia’s war during a live broadcast of Russian state television emerges from court.
Marina Ovsyannikova says she was fined 30,000 rubles ($280) for an anti-war video she released ahead of the TV protest, and has not yet been sentenced for the TV stunt.
She says police interrogated her for 14 hours after her arrest.
Ovsyannikova, a staffer at Russia’s Channel 1 news, walked into a TV studio yesterday during a live show holding a sign protesting the war in Ukraine.
The sign had “No War” scrawled in English across the top, with a message in Russian saying: “Don’t believe the propaganda. They’re lying to you here.” It was signed in English: “Russians against war.”
Her lawyers were unable to locate her after her arrest, with one saying police were “hiding” her.
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