Posted on Oct 20, 2023
Russia charges Radio Free Europe editor with failing to register as a 'foreign agent'
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A Russian-American journalist working for a U.S. government-funded media company has been detained in Russia and charged with failing to register as a "foreign agent," her employer said Thursday.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty editor Alsu Kurmasheva is the second U.S. journalist to be detained in Russia this year. Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was arrested for alleged spying in March.
Kurmasheva, an editor with RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir service, is being held in a temporary detention center, said Tatar-Inform, a state-held news agency in the Tatarstan republic.
The Committee to Protect Journalists media rights organization called the accusations "spurious," demanding that the charges be dropped and Kurmasheva released.
A Russian-American journalist working for a U.S. government-funded media company has been detained in Russia and charged with failing to register as a "foreign agent," her employer said Thursday.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty editor Alsu Kurmasheva is the second U.S. journalist to be detained in Russia this year. Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was arrested for alleged spying in March.
Kurmasheva, an editor with RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir service, is being held in a temporary detention center, said Tatar-Inform, a state-held news agency in the Tatarstan republic.
The Committee to Protect Journalists media rights organization called the accusations "spurious," demanding that the charges be dropped and Kurmasheva released.
Russia charges Radio Free Europe editor with failing to register as a 'foreign agent'
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