MOSCOW, July 28 (RAPSI, Lyudmila Klenko) – The Moscow City Court has upheld the ruling of a lower court extending the detention of Varvara Karaulova (Alexandra Ivanova), a student, who stands charged with attempting to join the Islamic State militants in Syria, till September 27, RAPSI learned from the court’s press-service.

Ivanova said that she made a “silly and naïve mistake”. “I’ve not committed a crime. I really wish to fix my mistake. All of this is causing great suffering to my family. I won’t hide. I don’t know if there is any need to keep me here,” she told the court.

Earlier, it had been reported that Ivanova was found sane by the psychiatric evaluation.

As previously reported the second-year student of the Moscow State University’s Faculty of Philosophy, allegedly decided to join the Islamic State and secretly started off for Istanbul on May 27.

On June 4, she was arrested near Turkey's border with Syria along with 13 other Russian citizens when attempting to cross into the territory occupied by Islamic State militants. On June 11, she returned to Russia under escort of Interpol employees.

In October, Karaulova, who had changed her name to Alexandra Ivanova, was again arrested in Moscow and put in jail.