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Moscow: A Russian court has sentenced American journalist Ivan Gershkovitch to 16 years in prison on charges of espionage. Western countries have condemned the sentence as completely wrong (given on false charges), disgusting and despicable.
In March 2023, he was arrested in Ekaterinburg in the Ural Mountains on charges of espionage. He was then tried in secret in a secret court in that city. After three consecutive hearings, he was sentenced to 16 years in prison.
It is worth noting that the city of Yekaterinburg is located almost at the bottom of the gorge in the middle of the Ural Mountains, near Sverdolsk, which is a city on the Russian side (not on the Siberian side). The last Tsar of Russia Nicholas II was kept in this city, but after receiving the news that Admiral Kiliakov was leaving Vladivostok with an army of 16,000 from the east to rescue the Tsar, the entire family of the Tsar was shot dead in this city, so this city is also historically important. Ivan Gershkovich must have been chosen to send the report.
Also, from his name, the reporter appears to be of Russian ethnicity, so it is also natural that he can get information easily. The Putin government could not accept this and he was sued.
Upon receiving the news, President Joe Biden said that Korshkovich is being targeted because he is a journalist and an American. There is no doubt that Russia has wrongly imprisoned him.
However, Russia and America are currently exchanging each other's prisoners. That's when this incident happened.
When the sentence was pronounced on Friday, Gershkovich was wearing dark pants and a T-shirt. Gershkovich's expression remained unchanged as he stood in the cage for the accused during the sentencing. He was taken straight from the court to jail.
While pronouncing the sentence, Judge Andre Miniel said that he should be taken to a strict regime colony. In fact, this strict regime colony is notorious for its harsh conditions and even more stringent rules.
This Wall Street Journal reporter told the court that I am innocent. I have not committed any crime. He is the first journalist to be arrested after the Cold War.
At the time of his sentencing, he had already been imprisoned as a labor prisoner for 16 months (since 2013). The charges against him were described as fabricated by the US government and the Wall Street Journal.