Prosecutor proposes nine-and-a-half-year prison sentence for fugitive Russian journalist Marina Ofsianikova

The imposition of a nine-and-a-half-year prison sentence on the fugitive Russian woman journalist Marina Ofsianikova proposed a prosecutor, Reuters news agency reports citing the independent news site Mediazona.

THE Ofsianikova became famous for her anti-war protest in a newscast her Russian television in March 2022, when he appeared holding a placard that read “Stop the war’ and ‘You are being lied to».

The Russian journalist on trial in absentia for “spreading fake news”a charge that includes disseminating information about the Russian invasion of Ukraine which contradict the Moscow narrative.

Ofsianikova, 45, left Russia last year with her daughter after escaping house arrest.

The charge she faces relates to her protest near the Kremlin in July 2022, when she appeared with a poster calling Putin a “murderer” and the soldiers who invaded Ukraine “fascists”.

Source: News Beast

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