For espionage: a Wall Street Journal journalist was sentenced to 16 years in Russia

Evan Hershkovich in court, photo: rosZMI

The journalist of the American newspaper Wall Street Journal Evan Gershkovich was sentenced to 16 years in prison in Russia on charges of «espionage».

The Kremlin media reports about it.

Hershkovich was detained on March 30, 2023 in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg. The FSS of the Russian Federation claimed that the journalist allegedly acted on the instructions of the American side and «gathered data that constitutes a state secret», namely about the activities of one of the enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex.

PR man Yaroslav Shirshikov, who accompanied Gershkovich in Yekaterinburg, said that the reporter had come to the city a few weeks before his arrest to write a story about Wagner and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

It will be recalled that the trial against Evan Hershkovich, a journalist of the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal, who was imprisoned 15 months ago, began in June.