{"id":213553,"date":"2023-08-26T04:17:49","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T04:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/?p=213553"},"modified":"2023-08-26T04:17:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T04:17:49","slug":"wsj-reporter-evan-gershkovich-jailed-for-three-more-months-pre-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/world-news\/wsj-reporter-evan-gershkovich-jailed-for-three-more-months-pre-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich jailed for three more months pre-trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich will be held in a Moscow prison for another three months before his trial after he was arrested on spying charges<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>US citizen\u00a0Gershkovich was arrested while on a reporting trip to Russia in March<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershokovich, who was jailed in Russia on espionage charges which can carry up to 20 years in prison, has had his pre-trial detention extended to November 30.<\/p>\n<p>Gershkovich arrived at court for a hearing to\u00a0extend his arrest\u00a0in a white prison van and was led handcuffed out of the vehicle wearing jeans, sneakers and a shirt.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A 31-year-old United States citizen, Gershkovich was arrested in the city of Yekaterinburg while on a reporting trip to Russia in late March.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He will now spend at least three further months behind bars before he is given a trial, Interfax reports.<\/p>\n<p>Gershkovich and his newspaper deny the allegations, and the US government declared him to be wrongfully detained. Hi colleagues have called for him to be returned home immediately.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/24\/09\/74673923-12440087-image-a-1_1692864795479.jpg\" height=\"453\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Gershkovich arrived at court in a white prison van and was led handcuffed out of the vehicle wearing jeans, sneakers and a shirt<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/24\/09\/74674841-12440087-image-a-13_1692866531897.jpg\" height=\"447\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The prosecution had asked to extend his arrest from August 30. Gershkovich has appealed against the extensions to his detention<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/24\/09\/74673927-12440087-image-a-7_1692864862850.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Journalists outside the court were not allowed to witness the proceedings, which Tass reports were held behind closed doors due to details of the criminal case being classified\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Russian authorities have not provided any evidence to support the espionage charges nor detailed what they might include.<\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s Federal Security Service have claimed that Gershkovich, &#8216;acting on the instructions of the American side, collected information constituting a state secret about the activities of one of the enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Journalists outside the court were not allowed to witness the proceedings, which Tass reports were held behind closed doors due to details of the criminal case being classified.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution had asked to extend his arrest from August 30. Gershkovich has appealed against the extensions to his detention.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, US Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy made her third visit to Gershkovich and reported that he\u00a0appeared to be in good health\u00a0despite challenging circumstances.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gershkovich was being held at Moscow&#8217;s Lefortovo prison, notorious for its harsh conditions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/24\/08\/wire-74672157-1692860584-92_634x422.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom at the Moscow City Court in April<\/p>\n<p>Gershkovich is the first American reporter to to face espionage charges in Russia since September 1986, when Nicholas Daniloff, a Moscow correspondent for U.S. News and World Report, was arrested by the KGB.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts have pointed out that Moscow may be using jailed Americans as bargaining chips in soaring US-Russian tensions over the Kremlin&#8217;s military operation in Ukraine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At least two U.S. citizens arrested in Russia in recent years &#8211; including WNBA star Brittney Griner &#8211; have been exchanged for Russians jailed in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s ambassador to the US said this week that the channel between the two countries for prisoner swaps &#8216;has already proved its effectiveness&#8217; when asked about his country&#8217;s appetite for such exchanges.<\/p>\n<p>Last month,\u00a0President Joe Biden told a news conference in Helsinki, Finland, that the US is interested in a possible prisoner swap.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;m serious on a prisoner exchange,&#8217; he said. &#8216;And I&#8217;m serious about doing all we can to free Americans being illegally held in Russia or anywhere else for that matter, and that process is under way.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12440087\/Jailed-WSJ-reporter-Evan-Gershkovich-arrives-hearing-extending-detention.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich will be held in a Moscow prison for another three months before his trial after he was arrested on spying charges US citizen\u00a0Gershkovich was arrested while on a reporting trip to Russia in March Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershokovich, who was jailed in Russia on espionage charges which can carry up to 20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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