A Moscow court on Tuesday extended the pretrial detention for The Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich until the end of June.
After hearing from prosecutors, Gershkovich’s detention was extended until June 30, according to state-run news outlet TASS.
Gershkovich has already been detained for almost a year following his March 29, 2023, arrest in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg.
Russian officials have charged Gershkovich, an American citizen, with collecting state secrets on the Russian military on behalf of the U.S. government.
Almar Latour, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, and Emma Tucker, the newspaper’s editor-in-chief, said the court appearances are “baseless proceedings that falsely portray him as something other than what he is, and his wrongful detention remains unconscionable.”
The U.S., press freedom groups and Gershkovich’s employer at The Wall Street Journal consider him wrongfully detained. His parents, Ella Milman and Mikhail Gershkovich, attended President Biden’s State of the Union on Capitol Hill earlier this month.
