DUBAI (Reuters) - A Russian journalist who is being held in Iran became detained final week for a visa violation and not for spying, the students information agency ISNA quoted Iran's govt spokesman as announcing on Monday.
The spokesman talked about Yulia Yuzik's case become undergoing a "quick overview" via the Iranian authorities however gave no extra details.
"Her case was a be counted of visa violation and it became now not concerning espionage ... Yuzik's case is below brief evaluation by way of Iranian authorities," mentioned the spokesman, Ali Rabiei.
Moscow has close financial and political ties with Tehran, and it's atypical for the latter to goal Russian residents.
Russia's overseas Ministry had summoned the Iranian ambassador on Friday over Yuzik's detention and the Kremlin mentioned on Monday it hoped Yuzik could be launched soon.
"We view negatively detentions of Russian journalists and trust them unacceptable. We hope that in the very close future she can be launched and the Russian aspect will get the critical explanations," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov observed.
In a quick phone dialog with her mom late on Thursday, Yuzik stated security forces had broken into her lodge room and detained her on suspicion of getting ties to Israeli intelligence features, her ex-husband Boris Voitsekhovsky pointed out.
Voitsekhovsky pointed out Yuzik didn't grasp joint Israeli citizenship or a visa for that nation and remaining visited Israel about 15 or 17 years ago to document on the Israeli military's everyday life for Russia's "Komsomolskaya Pravda" newspaper.
(Writing by using Parisa Hafezi; editing with the aid of Alison Williams and Timothy Heritage)
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