Secret proceedings begin against Wall Street Journal reporter as US continues to press Moscow for his release
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has appeared in a Russian court to stand trial in a secret proceeding on charges of espionage amid US efforts to secure his release in a prisoner exchange. Video footage published by state media showed Gershkovich standing in a glass cage at a district court in Ekaterinburg, a city in Russia’s defence-industrial heartland in the Ural Mountains, ahead of the hearing on Wednesday.
“This bogus accusation of espionage will inevitably lead to a bogus conviction for an innocent man who would then face up to 20 years in prison for simply doing his job.” Gershkovich is one of several journalists arrested in Russia after Putin promptly banned all dissent following his full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. They include Alsu Kurmasheva, a US-Russian dual national journalist at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty who was arrested while visiting family last year.
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