The Moscow City Court left The Wall Street Journal journalist Hershkovich in pre-trial detention

The Moscow City Court rejected the appeal on the measure of suppression for the journalist of The Wall Street Journal, Evan Hershkovich, who is accused of espionage. He will remain in the pre-trial detention center until the end of August.

US Ambassador to Russia Lynn Tracy and representatives of other foreign diplomatic missions arrived at the court session. According to “Sota”, despite the fact that Hershkovich’s case is being heard in private, the diplomats were allowed to attend the meeting.

• WSJ journalist Evan Hershkovich was detained on March 29 in Yekaterinburg, the next day a court in Moscow sent him to the “Lefortovo” pre-trial detention center. The FSB claims that Hershkovich was collecting secret information on one of the enterprises of the military-industrial complex at the behest of the United States.
• Hershkovich pleaded not guilty. The editors of The Wall Street Journal categorically rejected the accusations of espionage and stated that Hershkovich was doing his job. In particular, he asked residents of Yekaterinburg about their reaction to the losses incurred by PMC “Wagner” in Ukraine.
• The US State Department recognized journalist Evan Hershkovich as “unlawfully detained” by Russia. This status is equivalent to the status of a hostage and allows Washington to use additional mechanisms to achieve his release – in particular, to negotiate the exchange of an American citizen.

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