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Russian Journalist Who Protested War Escapes House Arrest


A former Russian state TV journalist whose protests against Moscow’s war in Ukraine attracted worldwide attention earlier this year has escaped house arrest, according to a short video statement. published Wednesday, in which she accused President Vladimir V. Putin of destroying Russia. people of Ukraine and the male population of Russia.

In a written post on her Telegram social media account accompanying the video, Marina Ovsyannikova said that she is freeing herself from a two-month house arrest imposed by a Moscow court in August. .

“I consider myself completely innocent,” she wrote, and as of September 30, “I refuse to comply with the containment measures imposed on me in the form of house arrest and free myself.” .

In the 12-second video, Ms Ovsyannikova, pointing to the black, court-imposed ankle monitor she is wearing, says Mr Putin should be the one to face trial “for the genocide of the people” Ukraine and for the crime of mass destruction. male population of Russia. It is not clear when the video was filmed or how Ms. Ovsyannikova freed herself from house arrest.

Ovsyannikova was placed on a federal wanted list on Monday, but a Moscow court on Wednesday denied her arrest warrant, the independent Russian broadcaster Dozhd, which operates in exile, reported. The lack of a verdict was clearly on technical grounds, the report said, as the prosecutor did not appear and Ovsyannikova was not in custody.

Ms Ovsyannikova faces 10 years in prison for spreading “fake news” about the Russian military, under a law enacted at the beginning of the war. The allegations stem from a protest by a woman outside the Kremlin in July, disparaging the killing of hundreds of children in Ukraine by Russian invaders.

The charges against her are unrelated to her infamous protest in March when the former Channel One editor appeared live on air with a large anti-war poster. Ms. Ovsyannikova left Russia for Germany after that incident, but returned in July due to an ex-husband custody case involving their two children.

Russian media quoted her husband as saying that she escaped house arrest with their 11-year-old daughter.

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