US journalist Evan Gershkovich, accused of espionage, looks out from inside a glass defendants' box prior to a hearing in Yekaterinburg's Sverdlovsk Regional Court on Wednesday. Photograph: Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP via Getty ImagesAmerican reporter Evan Gershkovich appeared briefly before journalists in a Russian court on Wednesday at the start of a trial on charges of espionage that he denies.
The Wall Street Journal reporter is accused by prosecutors of gathering secret information on the orders of the US Central Intelligence Agency about a company that manufactures tanks being used in Russia’s war in Ukraine. If convicted, he faces a sentence of up to 20 years. The proceedings will take place behind closed doors, meaning that the media is excluded and no friends, family members or US embassy staff are allowed in to support him in court. Such arrangements are common at spying or treason trials in Russia.
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Russia puts US journalist Evan Gershkovich on trialUS journalist Evan Gershkovich will face the start of a closed-door trial on espionage charges in Russia, more than a year after he became the first Western journalist since the Soviet era to be detained on such accusations.
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