In two politicized cases, Gessen, a Russian-born writer, is convicted of spreading fake news while Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is charged with espionage.
Russian American journalist Masha Gessen speaks while presenting her book: “The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia” at the 2019 Leipzig Book Fair on March 22, 2019, in Leipzig, Germany. The Russian trial of American journalist Evan Gershkovich will resume on Thursday, after a hearing date was moved up from Aug. 13 at the request of his defense team, according to a Russian court.
Gessen won the National Book Award for nonfiction in 2017 for “The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia.” When Gershkovich’s trial commenced on June 26, Wall Street Journal editor in chief Emma Tucker described the charges as bogus, saying they would “inevitably lead to a bogus conviction for an innocent man.”
The U.S. Embassy in Moscow said last month that the case against Gershkovich was “not about evidence, procedural norms, or the rule of law. It is about the Kremlin using American citizens to achieve its political objectives.
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