Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich went on trial in Russia on espionage charges that he, his employer and the U.S. government dismiss as false. The 32-year-old journalist appeared in court in Yekaterinburg on Wednesday in a glass defendants’ cage, his head shaved. The session was then held behind closed doors so not a lot is known.
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom in Yekaterinburg, Russia, Wednesday, June 26, 2024. Fifteen months after he was arrested in the city of Yekaterinburg on espionage charges, Gershkovich returns there for his trial starting Wednesday, June 26, 2024, behind closed doors. Gershkovich, his employer and the U.S. government deny the charges.
They added that his continued “wrongful detention” continues to be “a devastating assault on his freedom and his work and an unfathomable attack on the free press.” The countries also traded Marine veteran Trevor Reed, serving nine years in Russia for assaulting a police officer, for Russian pilot,Putin has alluded to interest in freeing Vadim Krasikov, a Russian imprisoned in Germany for assassinating a Chechen rebel leader in Berlin, but Germany’s willingness to aid Washington is uncertain.
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