Evan Gershkovich will remain in custody until at least June 30 after a Moscow court on Tuesday again extended his pre-trial detention on espionage charges.
A Russian court on Tuesday again extended the detention of Evan Gershkovich, an American reporter for The Wall Street Journal who was arrested a year ago on what the U.S. decries as bogus espionage charges. Moscow City Court officials said Gershkovich will remain in custody until at least June 30. The 32-year-old U.S. citizen was arrested and detained on March 29, 2023, while on a reporting trip to the city of Yekaterinburgand and has been behind bars ever since.
ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy attended the court hearing on Tuesday and reiterated that 'the accusations against Evan are categorically untrue.' 'They are not a different interpretation of circumstances. They are fiction,' Tracy told reporters outside of the courthouse. 'No justification for Evan’s continued detention, and no explanation as to why Evan doing his job as a journalist constituted a crime. Evan’s case is not about evidence, due process or rule of law.
Gershkovich is the first American reporter to be arrested on espionage charges in Russia since September 1986, when Nicholas Daniloff, a Moscow correspondent for U.S. News and World Report, was arrested by the KGB. Daniloff was released without charge 20 days later in a swap for an employee of the Soviet Union’s U.N. mission who was arrested by the FBI, also on spying charges. Fox News' Nikolas Lanum and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
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