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Tuesday, September 19, 2023
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Tuesday, September 19, 2023
WSJ’s Gershkovich appears in Moscow court to appeal detention
Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was detained on espionage charges, is appearing in a Moscow court to appeal his arrest.
The 31-year-old United States citizen was arrested in the city of Yekaterinburg while on a reporting trip to Russia in late March.
He and his employer deny the allegations, and the US government declared him to be wrongfully detained. Russian authorities have not provided any evidence to support the espionage charges.
Gershkovich is the first American reporter to face espionage charges in Russia since September 1986, when Nicholas Daniloff, a Moscow correspondent for US News and World Report, was arrested by the KGB.
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