Update (via CNN): A lawyer for the Russian television editor who held up an anti-war sign during a live broadcast on Monday confirmed to CNN that they have found Marina Ovsynnikova and she is in Moscow court.

A photo showing Ovsynnikova and one of her lawyers, Anton Gashinsky, was published on Telegram this afternoon.

Marina Ovsyannikova, the news producer who held up an anti-war sign during a broadcast of Russian state TV on Monday, is missing.

Ovsyannikova was detained by Russian law enforcement shortly after her viral protest (watch above), but her lawyers said they couldn’t locate the Kremlin critic. The BBC reports:

Ms Kostanova [one of Ovsyannikova’s lawyers] said she “spent the whole night looking” for the missing journalist.

“This means that they are hiding her from her lawyers and trying to deprive her of legal assistance and, apparently, they are trying to prepare the most stringent prosecution,” Ms Kostanova said.

Another lawyer, Pavel Chikov, posted on Twitter that he was unable find Ms Ovsyannikova.

“Marina Ovsyannikova has not yet been found. She has been imprisoned for more than 12 hours,” he said on Tuesday morning.

Her lawyers believe she will be prosecuted under a new criminal law that bans calling Russia’s military action in Ukraine an “invasion” or spreading “fake news” about the conflict.

The Washington Post provides important context:

Ovsyannikova appeared on the set of Russian state TV’s flagship Channel One evening news program Monday, chanting “Stop the war!” and denouncing government “propaganda” — a striking moment of public protest as the Kremlin cracks down on any criticism of its invasion of Ukraine.

OVD-Info, a human rights group that tracks protest activity and detentions in Russia, identified her as an editor and producer with the broadcaster and said she has been detained. Ovsyannikova’s Instagram account also identifies her as a Channel One employee.

The Post adds:

Before storming the set of Channel One, Ovsyannikova recorded a video message in which she said her father is Ukrainian and her mother is Russian. She described the war in Ukraine as a “crime” and urged Russian people to publicly demonstrate.

“Unfortunately, I have been working at Channel One during recent years, working on Kremlin propaganda,” Ovsyannikova said. “And now I am very ashamed. I am ashamed that I’ve allowed the lies to be said on the TV screens. I am ashamed that I let the Russian people be zombified.”

Her personal protest was hailed around the world as a dangerous act of resistance.

In his daily television address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy praised Ovsyannikova for “telling the truth.”

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, on the other hand, called her protest “hooliganism.”