His home was searched this morning, his lawyer confirmed to franceinfo. She was arrested for having demonstrated in front of the Kremlin, on July 15, and described in particular Vladimir Poutine as “murderer”.
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Russian journalist Marina Ovsiannikova was arrested at her home on Tuesday August 10 in Moscow (Russia). Famous for having interrupted the newspaper of a Russian state channel with a poster against the offensive in Ukraine, she has already received two administrative fines in the past, for her positions against the war in Ukraine. The case is this time more serious, because it is a criminal investigation for “dissemination of false information on the Russian army” which was opened against him.
“At 6 a.m., while I was still sleeping, ten members of the investigation committee and the police burst into my home” , writes Marina Ovsiannikova on Telegram. Investigators accuse her of a demonstration in front of the Kremlin on July 15, during which she accused Vladimir Putin of“assassin” and talked about the dead children in Ukraine. “More than 350 dead children in Ukraine, are they fake?”she maintained this Tuesday morning. “How many more children have to die for you to stop?”
Marina Ovsyannikova’s lawyer, Dmitri Zakhvatov, confirmed this information to franceinfo. “I asked the police to wait for my arrival for the search, which I was refused”, he explains. The journalist was transferred to the committee’s offices at the end of the search, which resulted in the confiscation of telephones and a computer.