Top congressional leaders and the White House are calling for the release of journalist Evan Gershkovich on the one-year anniversary of his detention by Russian authorities.
Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter held on charges of espionage, was the paper’s reporter based in Russia and was detained during a reporting trip in Yekaterinburg by Russia’s Federal Security Service on March 29, 2023. The U.S. government, press freedom groups, and his employer consider him wrongfully detained and his arrest politically motivated.
Gershkovich, 32, is the son of Russian Jewish immigrants who left the Soviet Union to come to the United States in the late 1970s. His arrest has put into focus a growing suspicion of “hostage diplomacy,” in which the Russian government is accused of entrapping Americans on false
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