Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was detained on espionage charges, appeared in a Moscow court Tuesday to appeal his arrest.
The 31-year-old United States citizen was arrested in the city of Yekaterinburg while on a reporting trip to Russia in late March.
He and his employer deny the allegations, and the U.S. government declared him to be wrongfully detained. Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands inside a defendant’s cage before a hearing to consider an appeal on his extended pre-trial detention at the Moscow City Court in Russia.The 31-year-old United States citizen was arrested in the city of Yekaterinburg while on a reporting trip to Russia in March.US ambassador Lynne Tracy spoke to the media outside the Moscow City Court after Gershkovich’s hearing.
Gershkovich is the first American reporter 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.
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