For the first time in the country, a Russian court has sentenced someone for taking part in an interview with an “undesirable” organization, the independent news website Mediazona said Thursday.

Nadezhda Nizovkina, an activist from the Far East Russian republic of Buryatia, was on the independent news channel Dozhd during a show in August, only two months after Russia declared the outlet “undesirable.”

The label forbids Dozhd’s work in Russia and makes it a crime to interact with it, such as giving comments or sharing its content online.

The Oktyabrsky District Court in Buryatia penalized Nizovkina 5,000 rubles ($56), as stated in the ruling on its website.

“Nizovkina participated in the activities of Sia TV Rain (‘TV Rain’) by talking on the television channel ‘Dozhd’,” the verdict from Jan. 10 says.

It also says that the activist, who is still in Russia, can appeal the ruling to Buryatia’s Supreme Court within 10 days. It was not clear if Nizovkina had appealed the verdict.

Mediazona said it did not know of any previous convictions for giving comments to “undesirable” media outlets.

Nizovkina had already been fined 5,000 rubles in December for the same administrative charges over her involvement in an opposition forum, Mediazona said.

Since starting its “undesirable” list in 2015 to suppress foreign NGOs, Russian authorities have widened the law to target independent news outlets, human rights groups, environmental organizations and educational institutions.