{"id":31813,"date":"2023-10-19T10:47:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T10:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innodebt.com\/business\/moscow-detains-us-journalist-for-targeted-collection-of-military-information\/"},"modified":"2023-10-19T10:47:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T10:47:53","slug":"moscow-detains-us-journalist-for-targeted-collection-of-military-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innodebt.com\/?p=31813","title":{"rendered":"Moscow detains US journalist for \u2018targeted collection of military information\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Stay informed with free updates<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description\"><span>Simply sign up to the <!-- -->Russian politics<!-- --> myFT Digest &#8212; delivered directly to your inbox.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=d005114e-c155-4925-99d0-045e326d84f5&amp;concept-id=37361dd6-0de5-45a8-b8b9-29184b1b4bc4\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>Russia has detained a second US journalist, accusing the\u00a0reporter of failing\u00a0to register as a foreign agent while collecting\u00a0information online, according to her employer and a press freedom group. <\/p>\n<p>If found guilty, Alsu Kurmasheva, a dual Russian-US citizen who works for US government-funded outlet Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty, could be sentenced\u00a0to up to five years in jail, the Committee to Protect Journalists said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kurmasheva is accused by authorities of having \u201cdeliberately conducted a targeted collection of military information about Russian activities via the internet in order to transmit information to foreign sources\u201d, the CPJ said. <\/p>\n<p>Her detention follows the arrest on espionage charges of US journalist Evan Gershkovich in March, as Russia widened its crackdown on all forms of independent journalism in the country after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year. <\/p>\n<p>Kurmasheva, an editor for RFE\/RL\u2019s Tatar-Bashkir language service, was first detained in Russia\u2019s Tatarstan republic this summer. Kurmasheva lives in Prague in the Czech Republic but travelled to Russia on May 20 because of a family emergency. On June 2, as the journalist was leaving the country, she was detained at Kazan airport. <\/p>\n<p>Russian authorities confiscated her passports, RFE\/RL said, and she was unable to leave the country. She was waiting to retrieve her documents when a new charge of failing to register as a foreign agent while collecting information on Russian military activities was announced on October 18, according to RFE\/RL. <\/p>\n<p>Gershkovich, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, has spent more than six months in pre-trial detention in Moscow\u2019s Lefortovo prison. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said a few months ago that there had been contact with US officials about a potential exchange of prisoners. <\/p>\n<p>Local state news agency Tatar-Inform shared a video of Kurmasheva being led by two men, their faces covered in black, to a local courtroom. Citing an unnamed source, it also outlined the accusations the Russian authorities have against Kurmasheva. <\/p>\n<p>According to Tatar-Inform\u2019s report, in September last year Kurmasheva collected information online about university professors in Tatarstan who had been conscripted to fight in Ukraine. That month, Russia had launched a mass mobilisation campaign that sent shockwaves through the country. <\/p>\n<p>Kurmasheva, the allegations claim, \u201cused this information to prepare \u2018alternative analytical materials\u2019 for specialised international bodies and to conduct information campaigns discrediting Russia\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This work of the journalist constituted \u201ca purposeful collection of information in the field of military activities of the Russian Federation, which, if obtained by foreign sources, could be used against the security of the Russian Federation\u201d, Tatar-Inform said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe has reported on initiatives to protect and preserve the Tatar language and culture from Russian authorities, who have exerted increased pressure on Tatars in recent years,\u201d said Jeffrey Gedmin, RFE\/RL\u2019s acting president. \u201cShe needs to be released so she can return to her family immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/d005114e-c155-4925-99d0-045e326d84f5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Russian politics myFT Digest &#8212; delivered directly to your inbox. Russia has detained a second US journalist, accusing the\u00a0reporter of failing\u00a0to register as a foreign agent while collecting\u00a0information online, according to her employer and a press freedom group. 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