A Russian court sentenced Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich to 16 years in prison after convicting him of spying, a charge the U.S. says is false. NBC News' Andrea Mitchell reports on efforts to get Gershkovich freed.
MOSCOW — A Russian court has sentenced Alsu Kurmasheva, a Russian-American journalist for U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty , to six-and-a-half years in prison for spreading false information about the Russian army, the court revealed on Monday. A spokesperson for the court in the southern city of Kazan said Kurmasheva had been sentenced on Friday following two days of court proceedings.
A week later, she was charged with failing to register as a “foreign agent”, to which she pleaded not guilty. Her husband, Pavel Butorin, who also works for RFE/RL, wrote on X: “My daughters and I know Alsu has done nothing wrong. And the world knows it too. We need her home.” Butorin has said her arrest was related to a book that she had edited entitled “Saying No to War. 40 Stories of Russians Who Oppose the Russian Invasion of Ukraine”.
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