Russian reporter who protested on television is sentenced to 8 years in prison in absentia

The Basmanni district court of Moscow today, in absentia, sentenced the Russian journalist to 8.5 years in prison Marina Ovsyannikovawho in March last year waved an anti-war flag in Ukraine behind the presenter of the main news program in the television Russian.

Remember Marina Ovsyannikova? Did the then State Editor of Russia own “Channel One”?

Here she is, being an absolute legend.

Well, she was sentenced to 8 and a half years in a penal colony….

But there is more.

Marina left a long time ago and now lives in Paris. #fuckPutin pic.twitter.com/Xn8GxEBI1M

-Keveen (@RoamThisPlace) October 4, 2023

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“Ovsyannikova She was sentenced to eight and a half years of deprivation of liberty under a common regime.”, reported the court’s press office.

The prosecution had requested nine years in prison prison for the journalist, who was found guilty of knowingly disclosing false information on the employment of the Russian Armed Forces, promoted “out of hatred for a certain social group”

The sentence also includes ban from working for four years, after serving the sentence, in the administration of telecommunications network sites, including the Internet.

The court added that the term of the sentence will begin to run after his detention in the territory of Russia or extradition to Russia.

Ovsyannikovase She is in France, where she received political refugee status.

Source: Elcomercio

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