(10 Oct 2023)
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Moscow - 10 October 2023
1. Wide of court exteriors
2. Officials arriving at court
3. Various of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich behind glass in court room
4. Screens showing Gershkovich in glass cage
5. Screen showing Gershkovich in glass cage; UPSOUND (Russian):
"(The court) ruled: Moscow Lefortovo Court's decision of August 24, 2023, to extend the detention of Gershkovich Evan, should be left unchanged, the appeal (should be left) without satisfaction.”
6. Wide of screens
STORYLINE:
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich lost an appeal Tuesday to be released from jail on espionage charges, meaning he will remain behind bars at least through Nov. 30.
Gershkovich, 31, had a mostly blank expression as he appeared in the defendant’s glass cage in Moscow City Court in blue shirt, T-shirt and jeans.
He marked six months in custody on Sept. 29.
It was the second time in less than a month he had appeared before a judge to appeal an August decision to extend his pre-trial detention through November.
On Sept. 19, the court declined to hear the appeal, citing unspecified procedural violations.
The journalist was detained in March while on a reporting trip to the city of Yekaterinburg, about 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) east of Moscow.
The court proceedings are closed because prosecutors say details of the criminal case are classified.
Russia’s Federal Security Service alleged Gershkovich, “acting on the instructions of the American side, collected information constituting a state secret about the activities of one of the enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex.”
Gershkovich and the Journal deny the allegations, and the U.S. government has declared him to be wrongfully detained.
Russian authorities haven’t detailed any evidence to support the espionage charges.
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