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Campaña Emblema de Prensa (PEC), an NGO that monitors the situation of journalists in countries in conflict and other places at risk, asked today: the release of American
Campaña Emblema de Prensa (PEC), an NGO that monitors the situation of journalists in countries in conflict and other places at risk, asked today: the release of American journalist Evan Hershkowitz, newspaper correspondent in Russiaor The Wall Street Journal, Arrested on suspicion of espionage.
On the arrest of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), announced today, “marks a major escalation in the Kremlin’s efforts to silence independent media,” emphasized the statement from the NGO.
Gershkovich “just did his job” when he was detained in the city of Yekaterinburg, 1,800 kilometers east of Moscow, the PEC stressed, stressing that he was the first American reporter to be detained on espionage charges since the Cold War.
According to Russian authorities, Gershkovich “collected classified information on behalf of the American side on the activities of one of the enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex.
“The FSB stopped the illegal activities of US citizen Evan Gershkovich, born in 1991, correspondent for the Moscow bureau of the daily Wall Street Magazineaccredited at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, suspicions of spying for the US government, said.
Thus, he stressed that the journalist arrested in the city of Yekaterinburg and He faces a possible term of up to 20 years in prison.
According to the independent media outlet Meduza, Gershkovich was detained on Wednesday. in front of a restaurant in the capital of the Urals. The publication indicated that the American reporter was in this city, collecting information about the attitude of the Russian population towards Wagner’s private army, currently leading the Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine.
Wall Street Magazine denied the accusations of the Russian government against Gershkovich, and also demanded his immediate release.
(According to information from Europe Press And EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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