American ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy was granted access on Monday to jailed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, the US State Department said, in the second such visit since his pre-trial detention in March on espionage charges he denies.
Tracy met with Gershkovich at Lefortovo Prison in Moscow in what was the first time US Embassy officials were granted consular access since April 17, a State Department spokesperson.
A Russian judge on June 22 rejected an application for Gershkovich, 31, to be released from prison while awaiting trial. Tracy after that decision accused Russia of conducting "hostage diplomacy." The State Department repeated the U.S. view that Gershkovich is wrongfully detained and it described the charges against him baseless. It called for the immediate release of Gershkovich and Paul Whelan, a former US Marine serving a 16-year sentence in a Russian penal colony on espionage charges.
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