Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich will remain jailed on espionage charges until at least late June, after a Moscow court on Tuesday rejected his appeal that sought to end his pretrial detention.
A Moscow court on Tuesday denied American journalist Evan Gershkovich’s appeal against the extension of his pre-trial detention in the spying case that he and the U.S. government have rejected as bogus and politically motivated.
STORY: Gershkovich, 32, became the first U.S. journalist arrested on spying charges in Russia since the Cold War when he was detained by the Federal Security Service (FSB) on March 29 last year. He, his newspaper and the U.
A Moscow court on Tuesday denied US journalist Evan Gershkovich's appeal against the extension of his pre-trial detention in the espionage case that he and American authorities have rejected as
Last month, his pretrial detention was continued yet again -- until June 30 -- in a ruling that he and his lawyers later challenged. A Moscow appellate court rejected it Tuesday. In the courtroom on Tuesday,
MOSCOW >> Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich will remain jailed on espionage charges until at least late June, after a Moscow court today rejected his appeal that sought to end his pretrial detention.
Analysts have pointed out that Moscow may be using jailed Americans as bargaining chips in soaring U.S.-Russian tensions over the Kremlin’s military operation in Ukraine.