{"id":133,"date":"2024-06-27T03:19:49","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T03:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=133"},"modified":"2024-06-27T03:19:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T03:19:49","slug":"russia-evan-gershkovich-trial-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=133","title":{"rendered":"Russia Opens Secret Trial of Evan Gershkovich of The Wall Street Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In his nearly 15 months in Moscow\u2019s infamous Lefortovo prison, Evan Gershkovich has plowed through Russian literary classics like \u201cWar and Peace,\u201d and played slow-moving chess by mail with his father in the United States. He tries to keep himself in shape during the hourlong exercise period he is permitted each day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Friends who correspond with him describe Mr. Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter, as positive, strong and rarely discouraged, despite facing the official wrath of President Vladimir V. Putin\u2019s Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHe may have ups and downs like everyone else, but he remains confident in himself, in his rightness,\u201d said Maria Borzunova, a Russian journalist and a friend of Mr. Gershkovich.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Gershkovich went on trial Wednesday, facing up to 20 years in prison on an espionage charge that he, his employer and the U.S. State Department vehemently deny.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He appeared in a court in the major industrial city of Yekaterinburg east of Moscow, where he was originally detained and where he was transferred recently after more than a year of imprisonment in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Shortly before the proceedings started, journalists filmed Mr. Gershkovich, with his head recently shaved, standing in a glass cage in the courtroom. After several hours, the court scheduled the next session in the case for Aug. 13, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/tass_agency\/257148\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Russian state news agency Tass<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At the heart of Mr. Gershkovich\u2019s ordeal is a void \u2014 the absence of any evidence made public by the Russian authorities to support their claim that he was a spy. Nor is any likely to emerge from his trial, which has been declared secret, with any observers barred from attending and his lawyers prohibited from publicly revealing anything they learn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe think that it is a sham trial based on fake charges, therefore the proceedings will be farcical,\u201d Almar Latour, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, said in an interview. It is impossible to predict how a trial will affect efforts to obtain Mr. Gershkovich\u2019s release, he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a statement on Wednesday, the U.S. Embassy in Moscow said officials were at the courthouse and given brief access before the proceedings began. \u201cWe have been clear from the start that Evan has done nothing wrong and never should have been arrested in the first place,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Russian trials, conviction is largely a foregone conclusion, especially when \u2014 as in this case \u2014 the Kremlin has weighed in. The judge hearing the case has boasted to a local news outlet that in a career spanning decades, he has acquitted just four defendants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For more than five years, Mr. Gershkovich, a U.S. citizen who grew up in New Jersey, roamed Russia as a reporter, growing to love the country, friends say. The Foreign Ministry repeatedly reissued his reporting credentials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now he may be Kremlin fodder for a prisoner swap, as other imprisoned Americans have been recently. In hammering out such an exchange, Russia insists that first a trial must be completed, ostensibly putting both sides on equal legal footing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHe\u2019s a Kremlin chip, and they want to trade him,\u201d said Pjotr Sauer, a reporter for The Guardian newspaper and a close friend of Mr. Gershkovich.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Gershkovich\u2019s family released a statement on Wednesday, saying: \u201cThese past 15 months have been extraordinarily painful for Evan and for our family. We miss our son and just want him home.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cEvan is a journalist, and journalism is not a crime,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In April 2022, Russia traded Trevor Reed, an American convicted of assaulting Russian police officers, for a Russian pilot imprisoned on cocaine trafficking charges in the United States. In the highest-profile recent case, in December 2022, the United States traded a notorious arms dealer, Viktor Bout, for Brittney Griner, an American basketball star imprisoned for cannabis possession.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Asked in a television interview in February about Mr. Gershkovich\u2019s fate, Mr. Putin said negotiations were underway, but he mentioned seeking further concessions. He suggested that he might be willing to trade the reporter for Vadim Krasikov, a Russian sentenced to life in prison in Germany for the brazen 2019 murder of a Chechen former separatist fighter in a downtown Berlin park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Moscow, a senior Russian diplomat accused the United States of politicizing the trial. Speaking with reporters on Wednesday, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that Moscow had sent \u201csignals\u201d to Washington \u201cvia relevant channels\u201d about Mr. Gershkovich\u2019s potential release and that they should be considered seriously, according to Interfax, a Russian news agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Gershkovich, 32, was detained in Yekaterinburg, just east of the Ural Mountains, in March 2023. Prosecutors, in their vague statements on the case, have said that \u201cunder instructions from the C.I.A.\u201d and \u201cusing painstaking conspiratorial methods,\u201d he \u201cwas collecting secret information\u201d about a factory that produces tanks and other weapons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Gershkovich had been part of a coterie of young Western and Russian journalists based in Moscow. They took their role of explaining Russia to outsiders seriously: constantly working to improve their command of the language, traveling extensively and sharing a traditional weekend cottage in Peredelkino, a hamlet on Moscow\u2019s outskirts known as a retreat for writers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Gershkovich, raised by Soviet \u00e9migr\u00e9 parents, adopted the name Vanya, and relished Russian rituals like saunas and mushroom hunting, along with sports including soccer and skiing, friends said. His family was not available to comment on the trial, said Ashley Huston, a Journal spokeswoman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the climate for journalists in Russia turned threatening with the country\u2019s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The Kremlin passed draconian laws limiting how the war could be described, and shuttered numerous independent Russian outlets. Mr. Gershkovich was among the many journalists who left the country, but he returned periodically to gauge how the conflict was changing Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Given that no Western correspondent had been charged with spying since the Soviet era, the prospect of imprisonment seemed troubling but remote. Mr. Gershkovich\u2019s arrest crossed a line, Ms. Borzunova said, making it clear that all reporters, not just Russians, were at risk.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe thought that official accreditation meant something,\u201d she said, \u201cbut it doesn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">During his imprisonment, Mr. Gershkovich has met with his lawyers, and the U.S. ambassador, Lynne Tracey, has been allowed occasional visits. The State Department has <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/russias-wrongful-detention-of-journalist-evan-gershkovich\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">declared<\/a> him \u201cwrongfully detained.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His friends swung into action with a letter-writing campaign to keep him connected to the outside world. They organized the herculean task of translating them into Russian, to smooth their approval by prison censors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The effort has drawn more than 5,000 letters from around the world written by everyone from grandmothers to grade school pupils. Many people detailed difficult experiences they had endured, said Polina Ivanova, a reporter for The Financial Times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Gershkovich\u2019s friends have been inspired partly by his consistently high morale. In pretrial court hearings, standing in a holding cage for defendants, he usually greeted his fellow reporters with a grin and sometimes held his hands in the shape of a heart.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He has maintained a sense of humor, suggesting in letters to friends that prison gruel was no worse than some of his childhood meals. Mr. Gershkovich, who once worked in a clerical role in The New York Times\u2019s newsroom, had been a cook briefly before entering journalism. His friends prepare weekly care packages to supplement the lack of fruit and vegetables in Russian prisons, adding candy for his birthday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He has returned the favor, making sure to send them birthday or holiday greetings. He asks friends to update him about their lives, even encouraging them to send him separate letters describing the same social events. \u201cLike a real journalist, he wants different sources,\u201d said Mr. Sauer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A voracious reader, Mr. Gershkovich scoured the prison library for some of the thick, foundational tomes of Russian literature, including Tolstoy\u2019s \u201cWar and Peace\u201d and Vasily Grossman\u2019s \u201cLife and Fate.\u201d He also reads poetry and works about people behind bars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Time in prison has polished his command of the language. \u201cHe had baby Russian when he arrived, there was no slang, now it is lyrical, beautiful,\u201d said Mr. Sauer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">From the moment Mr. Gershkovich was arrested, his friends said they anticipated a long ordeal, given the experience of others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Paul Whelan, an American charged with espionage, has been jailed since 2018. Marc Fogel, a U.S. citizen who taught at the Anglo-American School in Moscow, was convicted of drug smuggling and sentenced in 2022 to 14 years in a penal colony. Alsu Kurmasheva, an editor for Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty and a dual Russian American citizen, faces an extended sentence on various charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe realized that this was going to be a marathon,\u201d said Ms. Borzunova, \u201cthat this was not going to be resolved quickly, that we had to prepare to tell this story for a long time, that he was a hostage of the Russian regime, that he was detained for his work.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his nearly 15 months in Moscow\u2019s infamous Lefortovo prison, Evan Gershkovich has plowed through Russian literary classics like \u201cWar and Peace,\u201d and played slow-moving chess by mail with his&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.5 - 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