Russia’s foreign minister said Russia has “irrefutable evidence” that imprisoned Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is guilty of espionage.
FILE - Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom in Yekaterinburg, Russia, June 26, 2024. The U.S. Ambassador told Russias foreign minister on Tuesday, July 16, that President Vladimir Putin should release detained Americans, singling out Gershkovich and ex-Marine Paul Whelan and accusing the Russian leader of continuing to treat human beings as bargaining chips. Sergey Lavrov blamed American journalists for helping delay U.S.
On March 29, 2023, Gershkovich was arrested while on a reporting trip in Yekaterinburg, a city in the Ural Mountains. Russian authorities did not offer any evidence that he was gathering secret information for the United States. “The use of journalists for intelligence gathering purposes, at least in the Anglo-Saxon world, is a tradition,” Lavrov said.
“When our journalists started to be chased away, when our media outlets were shut down, first we preferred not to respond,” Lavrov said, adding the West then “went too far.”“It went to some hideous, terrible steps, absolutely reckless steps, and we’ve been obliged to respond an eye for an eye,” he said.
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