Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was sentenced to 16 years in a maximum-security prison on charges that his employer and the US government have rejected as fabricated.
reporter Evan Gershkovich was convicted on Friday of espionage and sentenced to 16 years in a maximum-security prison on charges that his employer and theGershkovich, his head shaved and looking thin, was calm as he stood in a glass defendants' cage in the Sverdlovsk Regional Court.
Gershkovich, 32, was arrested March 29, 2023, while on a reporting trip to the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg. Authorities claimed, without offering any evidence, that he was gathering secret information for the US.Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands listening to the verdict in a glass cage of a courtroom inside the building of "Palace of justice," in Yekaterinburg, Russia, on Friday, July 19, 2024.
Unlike the trial's opening on June 26 in Yekaterinburg and previous hearings in Moscow in which reporters were allowed to see Gershkovich briefly before sessions began, there was no access to the courtroom on Thursday when the trial resumed, but media was allowed in court on Friday for the verdict. People walk past the court building with the words reading, "Palace of justice," on the front in Yekaterinburg, Russia, Friday, July 19, 2024, prior to the trial of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich's suspected spying activities.
Russian President Vladimir Putin hinted earlier this year that he would be open to swapping Gershkovich for Vadim Krasikov, a Russian serving a life sentence for the 2019 killing in Berlin of a Georgian citizen of Chechen descent. Earlier this month, UN human rights experts said Russia violated international law by jailing Gershkovich and should release him "immediately."
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