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Moscow (AFP) - A Moscow court on Tuesday denied US journalist Evan Gershkovich's appeal against the extension of his pre-trial detention in the espionage case that he and American authorities have rejected as false. Gershkovich, 32, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, has been in Moscow's notorious Lefortovo prison for more than a year after he was arrested while on a reporting trip to Russia. He is the first Western journalist since the Soviet era to be arrested by Moscow on spying charges -- accusations that he, his employer and the US government reject. "The first court of appeal ruled ...
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Moscow (AFP) - Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter who has spent a year behind bars in Russia, is awaiting a trial on espionage charges the White House says are fabricated but could still see him jailed for decades. The US-born son of Soviet emigres covered Russia for six years, including a stint with AFP, as the Kremlin made independent, on-the-ground reporting increasingly dangerous and illegal. His arrest in March 2023 on charges of spying -- the first such charge against a Western journalist since the Soviet era -- showed that the Kremlin was prepared to go further than ever b...
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Moscow (AFP) - A Moscow court on Tuesday said it had extended until January the detention of US reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested in Russia earlier this year on spying charges. The court said Gershkovich's "period of detention" was extended by two more months until January 30, in what the Wall Street Journal, his employer, called a "brazen and outrageous attack on a free press." The 32-year-old correspondent, the Wall Street Journal and the US government have all rejected the spying allegations. The hearing was held behind closed doors, and no press were allowed inside. The US Em...
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Washington (AFP) - The sister of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who has been detained in Russia since March on spying charges, appealed for his release on Tuesday ahead of his upcoming 32nd birthday. "Every day that Evan is in prison is a day too long," Danielle Gershkovich said in an interview with AFP in Washington. "We want him home." Gershkovich, who was arrested in late March during a reporting trip in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg, is the first Western reporter to be jailed on espionage charges in Russia since the Soviet era. He turns 32 years old on Thursday. Gershkovi...
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Moscow (AFP) - US reporter Evan Gershkovich has appealed against a Russian court's decision to extend his pre-trial detention by three months, according to documents published by a Moscow court. Gershkovich was detained in March during a reporting trip to the Urals and accused of spying -- charges that he, the US government and his employer the Wall Street Journal vehemently deny. His pre-trial custody was due to expire on August 30, but a judge ruled Thursday it would be extended to November 30, a decision criticised by the WSJ and US State Department. The Moscow City Court website showed th...
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Moscow (AFP) - Russia on Thursday extended by three months the detention of Wall Street Journal correspondent Evan Gershkovich, defying pleas for the release of the reporter arrested on the job in March. Gershkovich, unlike many Western reporters, had continued to report from Russia during Moscow's offensive in Ukraine. He was the first journalist arrested by Moscow on allegations of spying -- which he and his employer strongly deny -- since the Cold War, sending a chill through media circles. "The time of detention has been extended by three months," a spokesperson for Moscow's Lefortovsky c...
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Washington (AFP) - The White House said Friday there is still no clear "pathway" to getting jailed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich home from Russia, despite high level talks. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan confirmed comments from the Kremlin earlier this week that there had been contacts between the two sides. "It is true and we have said that we remain in contact with Russian authorities at high levels on these cases to try to figure out a way to bring home unjustly detained Americans, including Evan," he told reporters. Asked about reports that a prisoner swap was bein...
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