Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Emma Tucker celebrated the freedom of Evan Gershkovich, who had been wrongfully detained in Russia for 70 weeks.
The Wall Street Journal saw one of its own unjustly imprisoned across the world for nearly 500 grueling days. Now it's celebrating the freedom of reporter Evan Gershkovich, who had been wrongfully detained in Russia since last March. Gershkovich, American veteran Paul Whelan, Alsu Kurmasheva and Vladimir Kara-Murza, a green card holder, are coming home after a massive swap of political prisoners involving the United States, Russia, and other countries.
government is keenly aware, as are we, that the only way to prevent a quickening cycle of arresting innocent people as pawns in cynical geopolitical games is to remove the incentive for Russia and other nations that pursue the same detestable practice,' Tucker continued.
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