A Russian court has sentenced Alsu Kurmasheva, a Russian-American journalist for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, to six-and-a-half years in prison after a rushed, secret trial.
Kurmasheva, a Prague-based editor, was arrested last year during a family visit to the city of Kazan in south-west Russia for failing to register as a “foreign agent” and for spreading “false information” about the country’s armed forces, under crippling censorship laws enacted after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
