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Russia's espionage case against WSJ journalist a warning 'for all foreign journalists to leave'

FRANCE24, 18 Apr 2023
A Moscow court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from US journalist and Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich to be freed from pre-trial detention, meaning he will stay in a former KGB prison until at least May 29 while a spying case against him is investigated. Russia's FSB security service arrested Gershkovich last month on espionage charges that carry a possible 20-year prison sentence. The United States has deemed him "wrongfully detained". For more, FRANCE 24 is joined by Alexandra Filippenko, Political Analyst and Senior Research Fellow for the Institute for US and Canadian Studies at the Russian Academy of Science.


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