Court hearing on detention of US journalist Evan Gershkovich, Moscow, Russian Federation - 24 Aug 2023
The Wall Street Journal's correspondent Evan Gershkovich is escorted to a court hearing of the Lefortovsky District Court for the extension of his detention period on espionage charges in Moscow, Russia, 24 August 2023. Evan Gershkovich, a US journalist at The Wall Street Journal covering Russia, was detained in Yekaterinburg on 29 March. The Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) claimed that on the instructions of the American authorities, the journalist collected information constituting a state secret about one of the enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex. He is charged under Art. 276 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - Espionage, which could carry a sentence of up to 20 years.