OVD-Info reported to the UN about the disappearance of Channel One employee Marina Ovsyannikova

OVD-Info lawyers have sent an appeal to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances regarding the disappearance of Channel One employee Marina Ovsyannikova. According to her friends, Ovsyannikova was detained by the police after appearing on the evening broadcast of the Vremya program with an anti-war poster.

We believe that Russia is violating Article 10 of the Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance: “Accurate information concerning the detention of such persons [persons deprived of their liberty] and the place or places of their detention, including places of transfer, shall be promptly provided to members of their families, their lawyer or any other person having a legitimate interest in the information, unless the persons in detention express otherwise.”

Since the evening of March 14, Marina Ovsyannikova's whereabouts have been unknown. OVD-Info lawyers Dmitry Zakhvatov and Anastasia Kostanova took her to the Ostankino district police department, but were told that Ovsyannikova was not there. The Agora human rights group reported at night that the detainee was still at the police station, but a lawyer was not allowed to see her.

searched for the Investigative Committee transferred the next day to check Ovsyannikova's actions for the presence of an offense under the article on "public dissemination of knowingly false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation" (207.3 of the Criminal Code). Earlier, the State Duma amendments increasing the maximum possible punishment under this article to 15 years of imprisonment.

began accepted By the time the news was published, according to Novaya Gazeta, Marina Ovsyannikova may be in the Ostankino District Court.

According to information from lawyer Sergei Badamshin on his Telegram channel, Ovsyannikova is in court. She will be defended by Badamshin's colleague Anton Gashinsky.

17:26 confirms Before the meeting, Ovsyannikova was in the police department for servicing the All-Russian Exhibition Center in Ostankino.

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