US radio journalist detained in Russia, second to be jailed after WSJ’s Evan Gershkovich
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A Russian-American radio journalist working for a US government-funded media organization was visiting family when she was detained by authorities and charged with failing to register as a foreign agent, according to reports — even as a Wall Street Journal reporter remains in jail over suspicion of espionage.
Alsu Kurmasheva, 47, a Prague-based editor for Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) Tatar-Bashkir Service, was arrested on Wednesday and was being held in a temporary detention center in Kazan — a major city 500 miles east of Moscow — as of Wednesday night, her employer reported.
She will likely be moved to a pretrial detention center as she awaits a hearing, though it wasn’t immediately clear when Kurmasheva’s trial is set to begin.
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