A Russian court docket on Monday ordered a Russian-American journalist who was detained final week on fees of failing to register as a overseas agent to stay in custody till early December, her employer reported.

Alsu Kurmasheva, an editor for the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Tatar-Bashkir service, appeared in a closed session in a court docket within the metropolis of Kazan, the capital of the Tatarstan republic.

The radio service mentioned the court docket ordered her to be held till Dec. 5, rejecting her lawyer’s request for preventive measures apart from incarceration.

She is the second U.S. journalist detained in Russia this 12 months, after Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was arrested on espionage fees in March. Gershkovich stays in custody.

The state-run information web site Tatar-Inform mentioned Kurmasheva faces charges of failing to register as a “foreign agent” and was accumulating info on Russian navy actions. Conviction would carry a sentence of as much as 5 years in jail.

Kurmasheva, who lives in Prague, was stopped June 2 at Kazan International Airport after touring to Russia for a household emergency May 20, in accordance with RFE/RL.

Airport officers confiscated her U.S. and Russian passports and she or he was fined for failing to register her U.S. passport. She was ready for her passports to be returned when the brand new cost was filed Wednesday, RFE/RL mentioned.

RFE/RL was advised by Russian authorities in 2017 to register as a overseas agent, but it surely has challenged Moscow’s use of overseas agent legal guidelines within the European Court of Human Rights. The group has been fined hundreds of thousands of {dollars} by Russia.

The Committee to Protect Journalists known as the costs in opposition to Kurmasheva “spurious,” saying her detention “is yet more proof that Russia is determined to stifle independent reporting.”

Kurmasheva reported on ethnic minority communities within the Tatarstan and Bashkortostan republics in Russia, together with tasks to protect the Tatar language and tradition, her employer mentioned.

Gershkovich and The Wall Street Journal deny the allegations in opposition to him, and the U.S. authorities has declared him to be wrongfully detained.

Russian authorities have not detailed any proof to help the costs. Court proceedings in opposition to him are closed as a result of prosecutors say particulars of the case are categorized.