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Former Channel One editor charged for live anti-war protest
Moscow's Ostankino Court has registered a protocol in a case of discrediting Russian military personnel (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), drawn up against former editor of Channel One Marina Ovsyannikova. Novaya Gazeta has brought the status of the case to the attention of the court's website.
card turned in March 14 Ovsyannikova went into the studio where the evening news was being filmed - the girl stood in front of the camera with an anti-war poster. In this way, according to the police, she discredited the Russian army.
The editor was immediately detained and spent the night in the VVC police department in Ostankino. OVD-Info lawyers Dmitry Zakhvatov and Anastasia Kostanova were not allowed to see Ovsyannikova.
The next day, the court fined the girl 30 thousand rubles under the article on organizing an uncoordinated event (Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) - but not because of the action, but because of the video in which she also spoke out against the war and, in particular, called for people to go to protest rallies.
fined on March 15 TASS that the Investigative Committee is conducting a pre-investigation check against Ovsyannikova - for the presence of a crime 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 of the Russian Federation). Earlier, the State Duma amendments increasing the maximum possible punishment under this article to 15 years of imprisonment.
Later, Ovsyannikova reported in an interview with Novaya Gazeta that she had resigned from Channel One.
Ostankinsky District Court returned the case materials to Ovsyannikova. The court returned the protocol after the judge had already scheduled the hearing for April 14. Mediazona reported this.