Gershkovich himself did not admit guilt.
In the Russian Yekaterinburg, at a closed trial, the court sentenced the journalist The Wall Street Journal Evan Gershkovich to 16 years in prison on espionage charges.
Radio Liberty writes about this .
It is noted that Gershkovich is the first American journalist accused of espionage in Russia since the USSR.
As stated in the Russian investigation, an American journalist, on instructions from the CIA, collected information about Uralvagonzavod, which produces and repairs military equipment, but did not provide public evidence of espionage.
< p>Gershkovich himself, who spent 15 months in a pre-trial detention center, did not admit guilt.
US representatives and The Wall Street Journal called the case fabricated.
” The US State Department has designated Gershkovich as “wrongfully detained“, the report says.
Recall that investigators from the Federal Security Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation brought an official charge of espionage to the previously detained The Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich. < /p>
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