WASHINGTON: US Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy met with jailed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on Monday (Aug 14), a State Department spokesperson said, in her third such visit since his March detention on espionage charges he denies. 'Ambassador Tracy said that Evan continues to appear in g
WASHINGTON: US Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy met with jailed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on Monday , a State Department spokesperson said, in her third such visit since his March detention on espionage charges he denies.
"Once again, the United States calls on the Russian Federation to immediately release Evan Gershkovich and also to release wrongfully detained US citizen Paul Whelan," the spokesperson added. The State Department has designated Gershkovich and Whelan as wrongfully detained and described the charges against both men as baseless. Whelan, a former US Marine detained in Moscow in 2018, is serving a 16-year sentence in a Russian penal colony on espionage charges.
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