More than 300 foreign correspondents working in Moscow have written to the Russian government to demand the immediate release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, saying his arrest is disturbing and dangerous to the country’s attitude toward the media. independent.
Gershkovich, who was arrested in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg last month on espionage charges, is the first American journalist to be arrested on such charges since the end of the Cold War.
Both the Wall Street Journal and the US government have denied that he was involved in espionage.