Marina Ovsyannikova flashing the anti-war poster throughout stay information on Sunday night.
A dissenting worker of Russia’s state-controlled broadcaster Channel One, who disrupted a night information present on Monday with anti-war poster, is lacking, human rights group OVD-Information has claimed. The worker, recognized as Marina Ovsyannikova, was taken to a police station after the breach.
A tweet translated from OVD-Info’s official handle mentioned: “A pre-investigation verify was initiated towards Channel One worker Maria Ovsyannikova, who got here out with an anti-war poster through the stay broadcast of the Vremya program, TASS experiences citing its supply. The place she is remains to be unknown.”
The organisation screens detentions at opposition protests.
The incident, a extremely uncommon breach of safety on the channel, befell throughout its flagship 9:00pm information present referred to as Time. The present is watched by hundreds of thousands across the nation, significantly by older Russians.
Because the information anchor Yekaterina Andreyeva launched into an merchandise about relations with Belarus, Ovsyannikova, who wore a darkish formal swimsuit, burst into view, holding up a hand-written poster saying “No Conflict” in English.
Under, the poster mentioned in Russian: “Cease the struggle. Do not imagine the propaganda. Right here they’re mendacity to you.” It’s signed in English: “Russians towards the struggle”.
The protester managed to say just a few phrases in Russian, together with “Cease the struggle!”, whereas Andreyeva, who has offered the information since 1998, tried to drown her out by talking louder.
The channel then switched rapidly to footage of a hospital and Ovsyannikova taken to police station.
Pavel Chikov, a human rights lawyer supporting her, mentioned in a tweet that she has been in custody for greater than 12 hours.
Quoting Ovsyannikova’s legal professionals, Ukrainian diplomat Olexander Scherba mentioned she will’t be present in any police station.
Her legal professionals mentioned she was initially held within the obligation room of the tv channel’s headquarters in Moscow. They now imagine she is being held in a secret location.
Ovsyannikova works at Channel One as an editor.
