Marina Ovysannikova was subsequently arrested by Russian authorities before she was brought before a district court on Tuesday
, Ovsyannikova was subsequently arrested by Russian authorities and detained at an unknown location overnight before she was brought before a district court on Tuesday. Refusing to retract her statement, the Novaya Gazeta newspaper reports that she faced an administrative charge of organising an uncoordinated event, however human rights attorney Sergei Badamshin says the charge stemmed not from her on-air protest but from a video she had posted on social media beforehand.
“Regrettably, I’ve been working for Channel One for the last few years,” she can be heard saying in the video. “I’ve been doing Kremlin propaganda and I’m very ashamed of it. Ashamed that I let people lie from TV screens. Ashamed that I allowed for the zombification of the Russian people. We were silent in 2014 when this was just beginning. We didn’t protest when the Kremlin poisoned Navalny. We just silently watched this inhumane regime.
“What is happening in Ukraine is a crime and Russia is the aggressor,” she stated. “The responsibility of this aggression lies on the shoulders of only one person: Vladimir Putin.” English translation of Marina Ovsyannikova's statement before her on-air protest and subsequent arrest tonight.
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