{"id":72275,"date":"2024-06-13T17:09:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T17:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/13\/russian-prosecutors-finalize-indictment-of-evan-gershkovich\/"},"modified":"2024-06-13T17:09:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T17:09:22","slug":"russian-prosecutors-finalize-indictment-of-evan-gershkovich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/13\/russian-prosecutors-finalize-indictment-of-evan-gershkovich\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Prosecutors Finalize Indictment of Evan Gershkovich"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Russian prosecutors announced a major step on Thursday in their case against Evan Gershkovich, the imprisoned American journalist, saying they had finalized the espionage indictment against him and that he would be tried in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg, where he was arrested more than a year ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mr. Gershkovich, 32, should get transferred from the notorious high-security Lefortovo prison in Moscow to stand trial in the city, which is about 880 miles east of the Russian capital, said Yevgeny Smirnov, a Russian lawyer who has worked on similar cases.<\/p>\n

When such espionage cases go to trial in Russia, they usually take about four months but can take up to a year, and they are typically closed to the news media, Mr. Smirnov said in a phone interview. If convicted, Mr. Gershkovich, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, faces up to 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n

Mr. Gershkovich, his employer and the United States government have denied the charge against him. The U.S. government has designated Mr. Gershkovich as \u201cwrongfully detained,\u201d which effectively means that it considers him a political prisoner.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n