special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, told reporters that the U.S. The resolution “strongly reaffirms that journalism should never be silenced by persecution or intimidation,” Senator Ben Cardin, from Maryland, said in a statement.Įarlier this month, Roger Carstens, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed a bipartisan resolution calling for Gershkovich’s immediate release. Embassy in Moscow said in a statement.ĭuring the Tuesday hearing, Gershkovich smiled and gave a thumbs-up when a journalist asked him how he was doing. “Despite the continued wait for the start of his trial, Evan remains in good spirits, buoyed by the continued messages of support,” the U.S. ambassador to Russia, Lynne Tracy, last visited Gershkovich in prison on April 18. Washington has accused Moscow of holding the American journalist hostage and using him as a political pawn. Gershkovich, who was accredited by Russia’s foreign ministry to work there as a journalist, has spent more than one year jailed in Moscow’s notorious Lefortovo prison.

“The first court of appeal ruled that the order of 26 March 2024 on the extension of the preventative measure should be left unchanged,” Judge Alexander Pushkin said in Tuesday’s hearing, according to an AFP journalist who was present at the hearing.

To date, Russian investigators have not publicly provided any evidence to substantiate the accusations made against Gershkovich. The Tuesday hearing was a technical appeal against an earlier decision to re-extend Gershkovich’s pre-trial detention until the end of June. One year in Russian jail for Evan Gershkovich

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