Russian TV worker who protested war live on air briefly detained

– Russian media employee Marina Ovsyannikova, who staged a protest in opposition to the invasion of Ukraine on dwell state tv in March, was briefly detained in Moscow on Sunday, posts on her social media channels confirmed.

“Marina has been detained,” a put up on her Telegram channel mentioned, beneath pictures of two law enforcement officials main her in the direction of a white van.

Shortly after, Ovsyannikova posted pictures of herself and two canine on her Fb web page.

“Went for a stroll with the canine, simply stepped outdoors the gate, individuals in uniform approached me,” she wrote. “Now I’m sitting in Krasnoselsky ministry of inner affairs,” referring to a police station in a Moscow district.

Three hours later, Ovsyannikova mentioned she had been launched. “I’m dwelling. Every part is okay,” she wrote on her Fb web page. “However now I do know it’s at all times greatest to convey a suitcase and passport should you exit.”

Ovsyannikova gained famed in March after bursting right into a studio of Russian state TV, her then employer, to denounce the Ukraine struggle throughout a dwell information bulletin.

She was fined after being discovered responsible of flouting protest legal guidelines.

Her temporary detention on Sunday adopted July 15 social media posts through which she is seen with a poster calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a assassin and his troopers fascists. “What number of extra youngsters should die earlier than you'll cease?” the poster learn.

German media outlet Welt employed Ovsyannikova as a correspondent in April. She returned to Russia earlier this month, writing on Fb that she was pressured to return to defend her parental rights in court docket in opposition to her husband.

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