Vladimir Putin says Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is considered a spy but is not opposed to releasing him one day
**This is a breaking news story, more to follow**US reporter Evan Gershkovich has been found guilty of espionage charges by a Russian court and will now spend 16 years behind bars as Washington calls the case a sham.
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. A Russian court convicted Gershkovich on espionage charges that his employer and the U.S. have rejected as fabricated.
Officers of the FSB security service arrested him on March 29, 2023, at a steakhouse in Yekaterinburg, 900 miles east of Moscow.Earlier on Friday, the court hearing the case had unexpectedly said it would pronounce its verdict within hours after state prosecutors demanded he be jailed for 18 years for spying.Evan Gershkovich, 32, was arrested on a reporting trip in March last year.
Evan's parents Ella Milman and Mikhail Gershkovich are both Jewish immigrants who fled the Soviet Union to America in 1979, before they met each other in Brooklyn 'Even as Russia orchestrates its shameful sham trial, we continue to do everything we can to push for Evan's immediate release,' the Journal said in a statement on Thursday.
Gershkovich is often seen wryly smiling in his numerous pre-trial court appearances, where his detention is routinely set back. His family say the occasional glimpses of him are 'always a mixed feeling'
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