“Reporting on Russian is now also a regular practice of watching people you know get locked away for years,” he wrote on July 12, 2022.
on dubious spying charges — as a chilling tweet Gershkovich posted just months before his arrest resurfaced.
During the call with his Russian counterpart, Blinken also reiterated the Biden administration’s demand that “wrongfully detained” Paul Whelan beWhelan, a former Marine, has been imprisoned for four years, as part of a 16-year sentence, on charges of espionage that he and the US continue to deny. Russia’s FSB security service has accused Gershkovich, a US national, of gathering information classified as a state secret about a military factory, though provided no evidence to back up the accusations.
News Corp CEO Robert Thomson said in a message to company employees Sunday that Gershkovich was “unjustly arrested” in Russia.
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