the journalist Marina Ovsyannikovaknown for having broken into a program on Russian public television with a poster against the military campaign in Ukraine and declared wanted and captured, fled from Russiaas stated by his lawyer on Monday, Dmitry Zakhvatov.
“Marina Ovsiannikova was forced to leave Russia,” she told the agency. RIA Novosti. According to Zajvátov, at the moment the journalist is “under the protection of a European country”, without specifying which one.
After you’ve been fired and fined for her protest last March on public television, the journalist emigrated to Germanybut later returned to Russia, where he continued to speak out against the conflict.
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After participating in a picket in mid-July against the military campaign in Ukraine, Ovsyannikova was accused of spreading false information about the Russian armyfor which she could be condemned up to ten years in prison. The Bassmanni Tribunal of Moscow decreed last August house arrest for the journalist until next October 9.
Later, her ex-husband reported that Marina had fled the arrest with her daughter, but without specifying the destination. Russia declared in early October in search and seizure the journalist for violating the terms of her house arrest. Since then the whereabouts of the journalist were unknown.