Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has appealed for an extension of his pretrial detention after Moscow pushed back the date he was scheduled to be held for three months.
Gershkovich’s lawyers appealed the extension after it was pushed back from August 30 to November on Thursday, eight months after he was arrested on espionage charges in March during a work trip to Yekaterinburg, the Journal reported.
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has appealed the extension of his pretrial detention.AP
President Joe Biden also suggested his interest in a prisoner exchange last month during a press conference with the Finnish president in Helsinki. Reuters
Attempts to appeal his current detention were already rejected earlier this summer after Gershkovich, 31, became the first American journalist arrested on espionage charges since the Soviet Union era, when Nicholas Daniloff, a Moscow correspondent for US News and World Report, was arrested by the KGB.
Both Gershkovich and the Journal have denied the espionage allegations, while the US government has declared the journalist was wrongfully detained.
President Joe Biden also suggested his interest in a prisoner exchange last month during a press conference with the Finnish president in Helsinki.
“I’m serious about prisoner swaps,” Biden told reporters.
“I am serious about doing everything we can to free Americans illegally detained in Russia — or anywhere else for that matter — and that process is underway,” he continued.
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