A spokesperson for the court says Kurmasheva was sentenced on Friday, the same day Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was sentenced to 16 years in prison
Russian-American journalist for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Alsu Kurmasheva, who is in custody after she was accused of violating Russia's law on foreign agents, attends a court hearing in Kazan, Russia, on May 31.A Russian court has sentenced Alsu Kurmasheva, a Russian-American Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist, to 6-1/2 years in prison for spreading false information about the Russian army, the court’s press service said on Monday.
Stephen Capus, RFE/RL president and CEO, told the Associated Press on Monday that her conviction is “a mockery of justice” and said that “the only just outcome is for Alsu to be immediately released from prison by her Russian captors.” Kurmasheva, a mother of two, is a Prague-based journalist and has been in custody in her native Russian region of Tatarstan since Oct. 18. She was earlier briefly detained last June while trying to fly out of Russia after visiting her mother.
A court first found her guilty of failing to declare that she had a U.S. passport, mandatory under Russian law, and fined her. She was then charged with failing to register as a “foreign agent”, to which she has pleaded not guilty.
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