The FSB filed a request to extend the journalist's detention, a WSJ editor said.
Journalist Evan Gershkovich is escorted outside the Lefortovsky Court in Moscow on August 24, 2023.The Wall Street Journal reporter being held in Russia had his pre-detention extended for three months during a hearing at a Moscow court on Thursday.
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 court's decision in respect of Gershkovich extended the period of detention for three months, and only up to eight months, that is, until November 30, 2023," the press service of the court said on Thursday.
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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