The United States will not give up on trying to secure the release of American citizen Evan Gershkovich, who was convicted of espionage in Russia. stated US President Joe Biden.
“The United States will not stop efforts to bring him home,” he said.
On July 19, a court in Russia sentenced WSJ journalist Gershkovich to 16 years in a maximum-security colony on a criminal espionage case. The prosecution had sought an 18-year sentence for the American. Gershkovich himself has pleaded not guilty.
The journalist was detained in Yekaterinburg in 2023. According to the FSB, the reporter was collecting information about one of the enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex that constitutes a state secret.
How reported in the prosecutor’s office the journalist collected secret information about the work of Uralvagonzavod.
Earlier in the Kremlin refused to talk About a possible replacement for Gershkovich.
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Source: Gazeta
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