Russian journalist who staged TV war protest handed 8 1/2 year jail term in absentia

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Russian journalist who staged TV war protest handed 8 1/2 year jail term in absentia
reuters.com

Marina Ovsyannikova, who burst into a news broadcast with a placard that read "Stop the war" and "They're lying to you", was found guilty of "spreading knowingly false information about the Russian Armed Forces". The 45-year old fled Russia with her daughter for an unspecified European country a year ago, according to her lawyer, saying she had no case to answer.

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I'm sure the streets are flooded by people objecting to the harshness of the sentence. /s

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