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‘Not losing hope’: jailed Russia reporter Evan Gershkovich writes to his parents

By Jon Henley

 

Wall Street Journal reporter held on espionage charges jokes about prison food in letter home

Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter imprisoned in Russia on espionage charges, has said in his first direct communication to his parents in the US that he is not “losing hope”, and joked in the letter about the quality of the prison food.

Gershkovich, 31, became the first American journalist to be detained in Russia on spying charges since the end of the cold war when he was detained in the city of Ekaterinburg, 1,100 miles (1,800km) east of Moscow, on 29 March.

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has said it has opened a case against the reporter for collecting what it claimed were state secrets about the military industrial complex. Gershkovich and the Journal have denied he was involved in espionage.

 

 

 

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