Wall Street Journal correspondent Evan Gershkovich marked his 100th day behind bars in Russia on Friday. The 31-year-old journalist has been detained in Moscow's Lefortovo prison for more than three months on espionage charges that he, the Journal, his family and the U.S. government vehemently deny. Gershkovich, who was working as a fully accredited journalist in Moscow, was arrested by Russia’s FSB security service in Yekaterinburg 1,000 miles from the capital, on March 29. Russian investigators said that while "acting on the instructions of the American side,” Gershkovich “collected information constituting a state secret about the activities of one of the enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex." The son of Soviet emigres, Gershkovich is the first American journalist charged with espionage in Russia since the end of the Cold War.

Source: Wall Street Journal July 07, 2023 11:47 UTC