MADRID, 5 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Basmanni Court, in Moscow, has refused this Wednesday to sentence the journalist Marina Ovsyannikova to prison ‘in absentia’, who protested in March against the war during a live broadcast and who is now unaccounted for after having left the arrest domiciliary imposed against him.
The Russian Justice imposed house arrest against the Channel 1 journalist last August on the grounds that she had “spread false information about the Armed Forces”, a crime punishable by up to ten years in prison.
Now the Moscow court has rejected prosecutors’ requests to replace house arrest with imprisonment, according to reports from the Interfax news agency.
The journalist, who has shown her opinions contrary to the Kremlin, has fled with her daughter, as explained by her husband, although she is now listed in the database of people wanted by the Russian Government.
Ovsyannikova has emphasized on several occasions that the precautionary measure imposed against her was illegal, which is why she refused to comply with it. The journalist had already been fined in the past for her actions, supposedly contrary to the Army.
In mid-March, he interrupted a live broadcast by appearing with a banner containing pacifist content and against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Following an investigation into it, she was fired from it.
