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Marina Ovsyannikova, a former Russian state TV journalist speaks to the press as she arrives for a listening to in a court docket in Moscow, Russia, on July 28. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP)

Marina Ovsyannikova, the Russian journalist who held up an anti-war poster on Russian state TV, has confirmed that she has left her court-ordered home arrest.

“I think about myself completely not responsible and due to our nation’s refusal to execute its personal legal guidelines, I refuse as of 30 September 2022 to look at my pre-trial restriction in a type of a home arrest and I free myself from all that,” Ovsyannikova mentioned in an announcement on her Telegram channel. 

A court docket in August positioned her below home arrest till October 9, charging her with disseminating false details about the Russian Armed Forces, TASS reported.

Ovsyannikova, a former worker of Russia Channel One, interrupted a broadcast in March holding up an indication that learn: “NO WAR. Cease the struggle. Don’t imagine propaganda they let you know lies right here.”

On the time, Ovsyannikova informed CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that many Russian journalists see a disconnect between actuality and what’s offered on the nation’s tv channels, saying “it was merely unattainable to remain silent.”

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“Pricey legislation enforcers, please put such a bracelet on Putin because it’s he who must be remoted from society and never me. Putin must be placed on trial for the genocide in opposition to the individuals of Ukraine and mass homicide of Russia’s male inhabitants,” Ovsyannikova mentioned in a separate video on Telegram on Wednesday whereas pointing to a monitoring bracelet on her ankle.

Russia’s army management has “no concept concerning the variety of victims among the many civilian inhabitants” in Ukraine,” Ovsyannikova added.

“Мaybe some choose’s, prosecutor’s or investigator’s conscience will get up and they’ll cease calling the youngsters who died in Ukraine fakes,” she mentioned. “And they’ll cease prosecuting me for telling the reality.”

“I’ve spent nearly two months below home arrest,” she continued, including that the entire time investigators have been referring to the phrases of Protection Minister Sergei Shoigu and his spokesperson Main-Basic Igor Konashenkov, “attempting to faux that not a single youngster died in the course of the struggle in Ukraine.”

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