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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian prosecutors will ask a judge at a court hearing on Friday to place detained Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) journalist Alsu Kurmasheva in custody, the court's press service reported. Alsu Kurmasheva, who works for RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service and holds U.S. and Russian passports, is accused of failing to register as a foreign agent after she entered Russia on May 20, her employer said on Thursday. Kurmasheva was temporarily detained by Russian security forces as she waited for her return flight on June 2.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) have called for the immediate release of RFE/RL journalist Alsu Kurmasheva, who was detained in Kazan, Russia, while awaiting the return of her passports.
Pangea Graphics via RFE/RLAuthorities in Russia on Wednesday arrested a U.S.-Russian journalist working for the U.S. Congress-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, the broadcaster said.Alsu Kurmasheva, a Czech Republic-based editor with RFE/RL’s Tatar-Bashkir Service, traveled to Russia for a family emergency in May, the outlet said in a statement. It said that Kurmasheva was temporarily detained as she tried to leave the country in June, with authorities confiscating both her U.S. and Russian