Jessica Yellin Instagram – ONE YEAR IMPRISONED IN RUSSIA
Today, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has been detained in Russia for one year. Though he was in Russia for a reporting trip, Russian authorities arrested him on charges of “espionage,” which Gershkovich, @WSJ, and the US government deny. The White House says Gershkovich’s detention is “wholly unjust and illegal.”
Today President Biden said he “will continue working every day to secure his release” and “impose costs for Russia’s appalling attempts to use Americans as bargaining chips.”
Reporters Without Borders’ World Press Freedom Index ranks Russia as 164th out of 180 countries for press freedom. Russia has 31 reporters and 4 media workers currently detained, including Gershkovich.
You can read more about Gershkovich’s work, his detention, his family, and the attempts to bring him home in the Wall Street Journal.
Can you imagine being his family and looking at this picture?
#journalism #journalist #reporting | Posted on 30/Mar/2024 00:04:26



