A Moscow court has upheld the detention of US-journalist Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested last month on spying charges.
The 31-year-old appeared at a hearing on Tuesday to appeal against a decision to keep him behind bars as he awaits a trial.
He is expected to be kept in pretrial detention until at least May 29 at Moscow's Lefortovo prison.
The journalist stood in a glass and metal enclosure inside the courtroom, wearing a blue-checked shirt with his arms folded in front of him. He did not say anything.
The hearing was about the terms of Gershkovich's detention and not about the substance of the charges he faces as investigators are still working on the details of the case.
Russia's federal security service, the FSB, arrested Gershkovich last month and specifically accused him of collecting information about a Russian arms factory. Russian authorities did not cite evidence to support the charges.

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