A Russian court on Tuesday rejected the latest in a series of appeals by Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich against his pre-trial detention on charges of espionage.
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.
The Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich had an appeal to try and end his pretrial detention rejected Tuesday by a Moscow court, according to The Associated Press (AP). Gershkovich will remain in pretrial detention in Russia until late June on espionage charges as a result of the failed appeal,
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
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.
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,
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, left, stands in a glass cage in a courtroom at the First Appeals Court of General Jurisdiction in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, April 23, 2024.
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.
The 32-year-old U.S. citizen was detained in late March 2023 while on a reporting trip and has spent over a year in jail, with authorities routinely extending his time behind bars and rejecting his appeals.
A Moscow court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by jailed US journalist Evan Gershkovich -- charged with espionage -- against the extension of his pre-trial detention until June 30.