Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned the Kremlin’s actions: “In the strongest possible terms, we condemn… continued attempts to intimidate, repress, and punish journalists.”
said on Friday: “The State Department is working very hard to get a counselor…to Evan, which is something that we do for all Americans that are detained.”. The targeting of American citizens by Russian government is unacceptable. We condemn the detention of Mr. Gershkovich in the strongest terms. We also condemn the Russian government’s continued targeting and repression of journalists.”
The journalist was arrested on Wednesday while reporting in Yekaterinburg, around 800 miles east of Moscow, according to theand seeks the immediate release of our trusted and dedicated reporter, Evan Gershkovich,” adding, “We stand in solidarity with Evan and his family.” Gershkovich speaks fluent Russian and has accreditation from the Russian Foreign Ministry to work as a journalist in the country.
The FSB said that Gershkovich was “acting on the instructions of the American side, collected information constituting a state secret about the activities of one of the enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex.”, a Kremlin spokesman, also said: “It is not about a suspicion, it is about the fact that [Gershkovich] was.” Gershkovich will reportedly be held in custody until May 29; the charges against him carry a maximum prison sentence of 20 years.
News outlets have also condemned the detainment. On Friday, in a letter addressed to the Ambassador of Russia to the United States, executives from news organizations—including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, BBC, Associated Press, and Washington Post—asked for the journalist’s release, writing: “Gershkovich’sis a significant escalation in your government’s anti-press actions.
The news of Gershkovich’s detainment is monumental not only because it is remarkably unusual, but also because it falls at a time where tensions between the US and Russia are high due to their positions on the ongoing war in Ukraine, and as high-profile prison swaps between the two superpowers have made recent headlines.
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