Lawyers for US journalist held in Russia on spying charges ‘file appeal’
by Shaun Walker from World news | The Guardian on (#6AEM2)
A Moscow district court says it has received documents relating to arrest of the Wall Street Journal's Evan Gershkovich
Lawyers for Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal correspondent arrested on espionage charges in Russia, have filed an appeal against the decision to hold him in pre-trial detention, a spokesperson for a Moscow district court has said.
Gershkovich was arrested last week in the city of Ekaterinburg and flown to Moscow, where a court ruled he should be held in detention until at least 29 May. He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted, in a case that has been widely condemned as tantamount to hostage-taking.
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