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Evan Hershkovich
Journalists
1991-10-26
Not in Russia
Moscow
Biography
Correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. He was detained. 29 March 2023 in Yekaterinburg, where he was working on a material on public attitudes towards PMC Wagner, before being taken to Moscow, where he was taken into custody. The materials of the case are almost completely classified. According to the publication where the journalist works, he was under surveillance even before his detention. Yevgeny Smirnov, a lawyer for First Department, stressed that this is the first criminal case of espionage against a foreign journalist in the Russian Federation. On 19 July, Gershkovich was sentenced to 16 years in a strict
Correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. He was detained. 29 March 2023 in Yekaterinburg, where he was working on a material on public attitudes towards PMC Wagner, before being taken to Moscow, where he was taken into custody. The materials of the case are almost completely classified. According to the publication where the journalist works, he was under surveillance even before his detention. Yevgeny Smirnov, a lawyer for First Department, stressed that this is the first criminal case of espionage against a foreign journalist in the Russian Federation. On 19 July, Gershkovich was sentenced to 16 years in a strict regime colony. On 1 August 2024, Gershkovich was released as part of prisoner exchange between Russia and the United States.