Judge who sentenced Evan Gershkovich says trial did not look at evidence

Neither prosecution nor defence asked for material evidence to be examined in case of US journalist, judge says

The Russian judge who convicted the Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has said the trial was short because it did not examine any material evidence" and the verdict did not take long because he could type quickly".

The case itself was small. I don't remember how many folders there were - three or five," said Andrei Mineyev, according to the RIA Novosti news agency.