Moscow court extends pre-trial detention of US reporter

Evan Gershkovich will be detained for an extended three months to Nov 30.

MOSCOW: US reporter Evan Gershkovich had his pre-trial detention extended by three months by a Russian court on Thursday, Interfax reported, on charges of espionage that he denies.

His newspaper has emphatically rejected the charge and the US has accused Russia of conducting “hostage diplomacy”, at a time when bilateral relations are at their lowest point for more than 60 years due to Moscow’s actions in Ukraine. No date has been set for a trial. Gershkovich has so far failed in two appeals, in April and June, against his pre-trial detention in Moscow’s Lefortovo prison, where suspects accused by the KGB security service were held in Soviet times.

It has agreed to high-profile swaps in the past, most recently in December 2022 when it traded Brittney Griner, a US basketball star convicted of a drugs offence in Russia for Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout.

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