Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Avenue Journal reporter who was detained on espionage expenses, arrived at a Moscow courtroom Thursday for a listening to on a movement by the prosecution to increase his arrest
FILE – Wall Avenue Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom on the Moscow Metropolis Courtroom, in Moscow, Russia, April 18, 2023. Gershkovich, who was detained on espionage expenses, arrived at a Moscow courtroom Thursday, Aug. 24, for a listening to on a movement by the prosecution to increase his arrest. (AP Photograph/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
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MOSCOW — Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Avenue Journal reporter who was detained on espionage expenses, arrived at a Moscow courtroom Thursday for a listening to on a movement by the prosecution to increase his arrest.
Gershkovich arrived at courtroom in a white jail van and was led handcuffed out of the car sporting denims, sneakers and a shirt.
A 31-year-old United States citizen, Gershkovich was arrested within the metropolis of Yekaterinburg whereas on a reporting journey to Russia in late March. He and his employer deny the allegations, and the U.S. authorities declared him to be wrongfully detained. Russian authorities haven’t supplied any proof to help the espionage expenses.
Earlier in August, U.S. Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy made her third go to to Gershkovich and reported that he gave the impression to be in good well being regardless of difficult circumstances. Gershkovich was being held at Moscow’s Lefortovo jail, infamous for its harsh situations.
Gershkovich is the primary American reporter to to face espionage expenses in Russia since September 1986, when Nicholas Daniloff, a Moscow correspondent for U.S. Information and World Report, was arrested by the KGB.
