Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is being held in a Russian prison on the charge of espionage. Today his latest request to appeal his detention was denied.
A Russian court upheld Evan’s detention. The U.S. government has deemed him as wrongfully detained. He has been in the news recently because of remarks made by Russian President Vladimir Putin that he is open to a prisoner swap for Evan’s release.
The rejection of Gershkovich’s latest appeal means he will remain behind bars until at least March 30. At that point, he will have been in custody for more than a year. The Wall Street Journal and the United States government deny that Evan is a spy. The 33-year-old reporter based at the WSJ’s Moscow bureau was taken into custody while he was on a reporting trip in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg. He is being held at Moscow’s Lefortovo Prison.
Russian investigators have…
