RUSSIAN STATE TV PROTESTER GETS TWO MONTHS HOUSE ARREST

Thu 11 August 2022:

Former Russian TV journalist Marina Ovsyannikova has been placed under house arrest for two months after being charged with spreading fake news about Russia’s armed forces, Interfax news agency has reported.

🇷🇺 Marina Ovsyannikova, a journalist who protested against Russia’s war in Ukraine during a prime-time news broadcast, holds up a sign reading “May the dead children haunt you in your dreams” before a court hearing.

She has been charged with “discrediting” the Russian army. pic.twitter.com/9VkmIgZpEf

— euronews (@euronews) August 11, 2022

Interfax quoted Moscow’s Basmanny district court as saying that Ovsyannikova had been placed under house arrest until October 9.

She was fined twice in separate cases for protesting against the war in Ukraine, including by interrupting a live national news bulletin in March, shouting “Stop the war!” and holding up a placard telling viewers not to believe state propaganda.

The Basmanny district court’s decision relates to a protest in July when she stood on a river embankment opposite the Kremlin and held up a poster calling President Vladimir Putin a murderer and his soldiers fascists.

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