Russia jails US-Russian journalist Kurmasheva for over 6 years
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Moscow: A Russian court has sentenced US Russian journalist AlsuKurmashevato more than six years in prison for violating military censorship laws, a c...
Moscow: A Russian court has sentenced US-Russian journalist Alsu Kurmasheva to more than six years in prison for violating military censorship laws, a court spokesperson said Monday, a ruling her employer slammed as a "mockery of justice".
Kurmasheva, 47, was convicted on Friday -- the same day a separate Russian court sentenced US journalist Evan Gershkovich for 16 years on espionage charges, also rejected as baseless -- but the details were not made public until Monday.
"On Friday, Alsu Kurmasheva was sentenced. Six years, six months," Natalya Loseva, a spokesperson for the Supreme Court of Tatarstan, told AFP.
The court's website states only that she had been found guilty in a hearing on Friday, with no details of the sentence.
Kurmasheva, an editor with the US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) outlet in Prague, was arrested last year while travelling to Russia for a family emergency.