More than 200 Russian journalists and activists have signed an open letter demanding the immediate release of Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter detained by Moscow last week.
dated Tuesday, the signatories voiced deep skepticism about the charges against Gershkovich, an American working for the Journal’s Moscow bureau, who had been on a reporting trip near the Ural Mountains when he was arrested. A court has ordered his detention until late May. Gershkovich filed an appeal.
The U.S. government and the Journal have forcefully rejected allegations by Russia’s Federal Security Service — the successor to the KGB — that Gershkovich was collecting intelligence on a defense enterprise. Secretary of State Antony Blinken Wednesday that there is “no doubt” Gershkovich’s arrest was wrongful and that a process was underway to begin a major effort to secure his release.The letter’s authors said that the charges against Gershkovich were “preposterous and unjust” and that the FSB was simply expecting the world to take it at its word. The Kremlin has a history of unjustly detaining U.S. citizens, Western officials have said.
Many of the signatories were independent journalists working for Russian news organizations based outside their homeland. The letter was published in outlets such as, whose reporters are scattered outside Russia, and TV Rain, which broadcasts from the Netherlands. Their locations symbolize the collapse of press freedom since President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine last year.
The letter’s authors also compared Gershkovich to Ivan Safronov, a Russian journalist sentenced in September to 22 years on treason charges. Evidence was not made public, as Safronov’s trial was held behind closed doors, The Washington Post has
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