russian prison colony

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 […]