Evan Gershkovich
In a significant prisoner swap between the United States, its allies, and Russia, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan were among over a dozen prisoners released. The deal involved 16 political prisoners, journalists, and others, including five Germans, exchanged for eight Russians held in the U.S., Germany, Norway, Slovenia, […]
A Russian court sentenced Wall Street Journal correspondent Evan Gershkovich to 16 years in a Russian prison colony on charges of espionage. The closed-door trial, held in Yekaterinburg, was widely condemned as a sham by Gershkovich’s newspaper and the U.S. government. Arrested in March 2023 while on a reporting assignment, Gershkovich was accused of gathering […]
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