The one-time propagandist, who denounced Moscow’s war on Ukraine during a live TV broadcast in March, had her home raided by Kremlin security services. Marina Ovsyannikova, a former editor of the state-run Channel One network who denounced Moscow’s war on Ukraine during a live TV broadcast, faces criminal charges after Russia’s security services raided her home on Wednesday. According to Dmitry Zakhvatov, a lawyer for human rights organization OVD-Info, who is assisting Ovsyannikova, Russian security forces kicked in the door to her house, without waiting for her legal representative to arrive. Zakhvatov said Ovsyannikova is being taken before the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, a powerful federal body that is comparable to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Later on Wednesday, Zakhvatov said that she faced a criminal investigation relating to charges of disseminating false information about the Russian army, under a new law adopted by the Kremlin after the war in Ukraine began. He added that the maximum punishment foreseen in the criminal code is a jail term of 10 years. The charges are related to a picket the former editor held near the Kremlin in mid-July, where she held a poster saying “Putin is a murderer. His soldiers are fascists.” According to her lawyer, she will stay in custody in a detention center until Thursday. On Telegram, Ovsyannikova said that 10 officers from the Investigative Committee broke into her house at 6:00 a.m. while she was still asleep. “They scared my little daughter,” she said, before adding “Over 350 children who died in Ukraine, are they fakes … How many children have to die, before you stop?”
via politico: Russian anti-war protest journalist Marina Ovsyannikova faces criminal charges
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