US journalist Evan Gershkovich appears in Russian court as closed-door espionage trial begins
US journalist Evan Gershkovich , accused of espionage, reacts inside a glass defendants' cage prior to a hearing in Yekaterinburg's Sverdlovsk Regional Court on 26 June 2024.
Russian prosecutors accused Gershkovich of working for the CIA and"collecting secret information" about the country's main tank manufacturer in the Urals. Gershkovich smiled and greeted journalists in Yekaterinburg's Sverdlovsk Regional Court with a barely audible"hi", as he stood inside the glass defendants' cage.
Washington has accused Moscow of arresting its citizens on baseless charges to use them as bargaining chips to secure the release of Russians convicted abroad. "We know that he is innocent of what he is being accused of," his father Mikhail Gershkovich told the Wall Street Journal in a video interview in March.
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