U.S. Ambassador Lynn Tracy visited “Wall Street Journal” journalist Evan Gershkovich, detained in Russia, in prison, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced on Tuesday.
U.S. Ambassador Lynn Tracy visited “Wall Street Journal” journalist Evan Gershkovich, detained in Russia, in prison, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced on Tuesday.
“I can report what Ambassador Tracy said that he is in good health and in good spirits under the circumstances. We continue to call for his immediate release from his unjust detention,” Blinken told reporters in Japan, where the G7 foreign ministers are meeting.
The ambassador informed on Twitter that for the first time US representatives received permission to visit the journalist in Lefortova prison.
The 31-year-old journalist of “The Wall Street Journal” was detained at the end of March and was officially charged with espionage at the beginning of April.
The Federal Security Service (FSB) claims that the journalist collected information on a Russian military industrial company at the behest of the United States. The journalist, his employer and the US government have denied these accusations.
Geršković faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of espionage.
While working in The Wall Street Journal’s Moscow office, Gershkovich wrote about Russia and Ukraine.
Gershkovich is the first journalist from a US publication to be detained in Russia on espionage charges since the Cold War.
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