Nearly two weeks after Russian security agents picked up Evan Gershkovich at a restaurant during a reporting trip, Moscow still has not granted U.S. Embassy officials permission to visit the WSJ reporter in detention
a move that effectively commits the U.S. government to securing his release. The designation was notable both for the unprecedented speed with which it was reached and because the designation seldom comes before the detainee is able to meet with American consular officials from the local embassy.
“This issue is being worked out and will be resolved taking into account the existing consular practices and our legislation,” she told reporters at a briefing on Wednesday. Russian officials haven’t commented on the matter since.how an American citizen is doing Mr. Gershkovich, 31 years old, was detained March 29 while on a reporting trip and accused of espionage, an accusation the Journal and the U.S. government. He is accredited to work as a journalist in Russia by the country’s Foreign Ministry. The Wall Street Journal’s publisher, Almar Latour, said on April 4 that lawyers, retained by Dow Jones, had been able to meet with Mr. Gershkovich in prison.The State Department said Russian officials only informed them officially over the weekend about Mr.
In the early days of basketball star Brittney Griner’s detention, top State Department officials were already railing that consular access to American citizen detainees had been consistently and improperly denied for months. Basketball star Brittney Griner, who was detained in Russia last year, waited more than a month to see a U.S. consular official., in which Ms. Griner appeared virtually, her Russian attorney unsuccessfully challenged the legality of her detention, in part because she had been denied consular representation.
The State Department announced on March 23 that a consular visit had occurred. The department in May said that it
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