Gershkovich, who the U.S. says is wrongfully detained, was arrested on a reporting trip over a year ago in Russia and faces 20 years in prison if convicted.
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who stands trial on spying charges, is seen inside an enclosure for defendants before a court hearing in Yekaterinburg, Russia, on Wednesday. The trial of American journalist Evan Gershkovich began in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg on Wednesday, 15 months after he was arrested and charged with espionage while on a reporting trip.
Russian prosecutors, announcing earlier this month that they had finalized an indictment, said in a statement that they had “established and documented” that Gershkovich had “collected secret information” about the Uralvagonzavod military factory in the Sverdlovsk region in Russia while “on assignment from the CIA.”
Gershkovich, 32, a U.S. citizen who has worked as an accredited journalist in Russia for more than six years, had remained in pretrial detention at the Lefortovo prison in Moscow after his arrest in March 2023.His case was transferred this month to a court in Yekaterinburg, where Gershkovich was initially arrested, and he was moved to a detention center in the city. As is typical for espionage cases in Russia, the trial will remain closed to the public and is expected to last several months.
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