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"How many more children have to die before you stop?" - Marina Ovsyannikova demonstrated again last week against the Ukraine war
Photo: KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP
After a second protest against Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine, TV journalist Marina Ovsiannikova has been arrested, according to several reports.
Photos were posted on her Telegram channel that allegedly show her being taken away by police officers in a minibus.
The civil rights portal "OVD-Info" in Moscow and the organization Cinema for Peace in Germany also reported on the arrest.
Ovzyannikova's lawyer confirmed his client's arrest to the Ria-Novosti news agency.
There is no information about her whereabouts.
"Putin is a murderer"
Ovzyannikova posted photos on Friday of her standing with a protest poster within sight of the Kremlin.
"Putin is a murderer," said the poster, and: "His soldiers are fascists." 352 children have already been killed in Ukraine.
"How many more children have to die before you stop?"
It remained unclear when the pictures came from and how long Ovsyannikova had stood on the Moskva River embankment.
Usually, the Russian police put a stop to such protests in a matter of minutes.
As a former employee of Russian state television, she showed a protest poster against the war in a live broadcast in March.
It read: 'Stop the war.
Don't believe the propaganda.
Here you are being lied to«.
For this, the editor, who had previously been considered loyal to the line, received worldwide recognition.
Fines were imposed on them in Russia.
After the action, she lived abroad for a while and reported for the German newspaper »Welt«.
atb/dpa/AFP
