Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is expected on Thursday to appear in court in Russia, as espionage trial continues.
The espionage trial of The Wall Street Journal's Evan Gershkovich resumed on Thursday, proceeding behind closed doors in a remotecourtroom after Washington and Moscow officials each raised the potential for the journalist to be part of an international prisoner exchange.
The trial of Gershkovich, a 32-year-old American, began in June behind closed doors in Sverdlovsk Regional Court in Yekaterinburg, a city hundreds of miles from Moscow. A second closed-door hearing began Thursday morning. U.S. officials accused the Kremlin of using the case "to achieve its political objectives."
"We will not rest until Paul Whelan and Evan Gershkovich come home, and Russia has ceased this barbaric practice of holding human pawns once and for all," she said on social media afterward.
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