As Jewish people around the world celebrate Passover, some plan to leave a seat open at their Seders for a Wall Street Journal reporter recently jailed in Russia.
A poster from a social media campaign started by Wall Street Journal journalists for Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was detained in Russia during a reporting trip.
advertising that they will keep a seat open at their Seder tables for Gershkovich. They plan to post photos of the empty seats on social media. Now, she's bringing the idea back, to raise awareness about her colleague who has been held by Russian authorities since March 29."We want as many people as possible to know who Evan is and what his situation is," Raice said."He should be somebody that they care about and they think about."
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