Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was detained in Russia on espionage charges involving information about a military factory.
“Let him go,” Biden told reporters when asked if he had a message to Moscow about Gershkovich, before adding vaguely that “we’re in the process.”
President Biden told reporters outside the White House Friday that Russia must release detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich.“We will not tolerate — and condemn, in fact — repression of journalists,” Harris said. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he believed Gershkovich had been “caught red-handed,” but he did not go into any specifics.Gershkovich has been ordered held at the notorious Lefortovo jail in Moscow until May 29.Gershkovich’s employer argued that the allegations against him were false, while White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre dismissed the FSB’s spying claims as “ridiculous.”
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called the allegations against Gershkovich “ridiculous.”Gershkovich is the first foreign reporter to be criminally charged with spying in Russia since 1986, when US News and World correspondent Nicholas Daniloff was detained for three weeks before being swapped for an employee of the Soviet UN Mission.
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