The FSB filed a request to extend the journalist's detention, a WSJ editor said.
Journalist Evan Gershkovich, arrested on espionage charges, stands inside a defendants' cage before a hearing to consider an appeal on his extended detention at The Moscow City Court in Moscow on June 22, 2023.The Wall Street Journal reporter detained in Russia is expected to appear in court in Moscow on Thursday for the latest hearing about extending his pre-trial detention.
Evan Gershkovich, a correspondent with the paper's Moscow bureau, was arrested in March and stands accused of "acting on the instructions of the American side" and collecting state secrets about the military. The FSB filed a request to extend the journalist's detention for "an unspecified period of time" as he awaits trial, Emma Moody, the Journal's editor for Standards and Ethics, said in an email to staff on Wednesday, citing Russian media reports.
Russia's state media agency, TASS, reported a hearing on that request would be held Thursday, Moody said.
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