Russian Journalist Who Protested Ukraine War On Live TV Detained

Moscow: Russian police on Sunday detained journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, who in March interrupted a stay TV broadcast to denounce the navy motion in Ukraine, her lawyer stated. No official assertion has been made, however her detention comes a couple of days after 44-year-old Ovsyannikova demonstrated alone close to the Kremlin holding a placard criticising Russia's intervention in Ukraine and President Vladimir Putin. "Marina has been detained," her entourage stated in a message posted on the journalist's Telegram account. "There is no information on where she is." The message included three photographs of her being led by two law enforcement officials to a white van, after apparently having been stopped whereas biking. Her lawyer, Dmitri Zakhvatov, confirmed her arrest to the Ria-Novosti news company, saying he didn't know the place Ovsyannikova had been taken. "I assume that it is linked one way or another to her act of protest," he added. In March Ovsyannikova, an editor at Channel One tv, barged onto the set of its flagship Vremya (Time) night news programme, holding a poster studying "No War" in English. On Friday, Ovsyannikova posted photographs of herself on Telegram displaying her close to the Kremlin and carrying a protest placard elevating the deaths of kids and denouncing Putin as a "killer". Declarations of this sort expose her to felony prosecution for publishing "false information" about and "denigrating" the military, offences that may carry heavy jail sentences. Ovsyannikova grew to become internationally well-known in a single day in March when she staged her stay TV protest. Footage of her interrupting the published went around the globe. She was briefly detained after which launched with a tremendous, however whereas plenty of worldwide observers praised her protest, it was not universally acclaimed by Russia's opposition. Some critics stated that she had spent years working for a channel, Pervy Kanal, which they stated was successfully a mouthpiece for the Kremlin. Within the months following her March protest, Ovsyannikova spent a while overseas, together with a short interval working for the German newspaper Die Welt. In early July, she introduced that she was returning to Russia to settle a dispute over the custody of her youngsters. (Aside from the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV workers and is revealed from a syndicated feed.)