#gershkovich — Public Fediverse posts
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#Russia’s state-backed media outlets REN TV and RT have published video footage of the arrests of #US citizens Evan #Gershkovich and Paul #Whelan, both of whom were freed in last week’s historic prisoner swap between Moscow and the West. The clips were reportedly provided by Russia’s Federal Security Service (#FSB), which carried out the arrests.
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/08/05/i-said-to-leave-it-at-home
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Alsu Kurmasheva, Evan Gershkovich, and Paul Whelan arrived in the United States after a prisoner exchange.
They were met by U.S. President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and members of their families.
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Norbert Röttgen (CDU) - Schwierige Abwägung im Namen der Humanität
Der Gefangenenaustausch mit Russland verlangte vom Rechtsstaat Verzicht auf Strafe, so Norbert Röttgen (CDU). Das erfordere einen breiten politischen Konsens.#Gefangenenaustausch #Russland #Belarus #USA #Gershkovich #Tiergartenmörder #WladimirPutin #NorbertRöttgenCDU
Röttgen (CDU): Gefangenenaustausch um einen hohen Preis -
When not in his cell, #Gershkovich was called to the #interrogation room of chief investigator Alexei Khizhnyak, the same #FSB interrogator who had once questioned the fmr Marine, Whelan. Khizhnyak faced prisoners across a T-shaped wooden table, in a room watched over by #CheGuevara, Soviet security services’ founder #FelixDzerzhinsky & 2 portraits of Vladimir #Putin. Whelan had said during his pretrial investigation that #Khizhnyak had threatened to kill him….
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'last month the court unexpectedly brought the 2nd hearing forward. At the end of a lightning-fast 3-day trial, Evan #Gershkovich was convicted and sentenced to 16 years in a penal colony.
The very same day, Alsu #Kurmasheva was sentenced to 6.5 ys in prison by a court in Kazan. Her trial had lasted just 2 days.
Someone was clearly in a hurry. It was the strongest sign yet that a deal had been done.The Russian authorities normally treat a conviction as a prerequisite for any prisoner exchange' -
President Joe Biden's speech on the prisoner exchange with Russia.
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The #Biden admin had been working on a swap that would have included the release of Russian opposition leader Alexei #Navalny before his death, #WhiteHouse #NationalSecurity Adviser #JakeSullivan said.
“In fact, on the very day that he died, I saw Evan’s [#Gershkovich] parents, & I told them that the president was determined to get this done, even in light of that tragic news, & that we were going to work, day & night, to get ... this done,” Sullivan said. -
The first photo of WSJ journalist Evan Gershkovich, journalist Alsou Kurmasheva, and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan after the prisoner exchange.
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𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘃𝗿𝗶𝗷𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗚𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗸𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗵: 𝘃𝗿𝗲𝘂𝗴𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝗴
The Wall Street Journal spreekt van een "vreugdevolle dag" door de vrijlating van collega Evan Gershkovich. De verslaggever van de Amerikaanse krant keert terug naar de Verenigde Staten als onderdeel van een grote gevangenenruil tussen onder meer Rusland en de VS.
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#Russland und der Westen haben einen groß angelegten #Gefangenenaustausch vereinbart. Der wegen Spionage verurteilte US-Journalist Evan #Gershkovich soll aus Russland freikommen. Im Gegenzug reist der "#Tiergartenmörder" von Deutschland nach Russland.
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V WSJ:
WSJ Reporter #Evan #Gershkovich Is FreeRelease of 32-year-old American from #Russia secured as part of largest East-West prisoner swap since Cold War
https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/evan-gershkovich-free-cde745b3?mod=e2tw
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As the #US sought over the course of a year to extract #Gershkovich, #Whelan & others w/o offering #Krasikov in return, snr Russian #intelligence ofcls had made clear there was no deal w/o him. German ofcls eventually agreed, extracting their own price of a dozen Russian prisoners in return.
The #Biden admin has pursued a series of large prisoner swaps w/hostile countries, including last year extracting 10 Americans & a fugitive from #Venezuela & a major deal w/ #Iran….
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V cpj.org:
The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes reports that Wall Street Journal reporter #Evan #Gershkovich and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) editor #Alsu #Kurmasheva will be released as part of a prisoner exchange, and calls on Russia to release other jailed journalists and stop harassing those in exile.http://support.cpj.org/site/MessageViewer?em_id=9561.0&dlv_id=25821&pgwrap=n
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Jailed #US Wall Street Journal reporter Evan #Gershkovich and ex-U.S. Marine Paul #Whelan were among 26 prisoners from the US, #Russia, #Germany, #Poland, #Slovenia, #Norway and #Belarus being freed in a major east-west exchange on Thursday, #Turkey's presidency said.
It said 10 prisoners, including two minors, had been moved to Russia, 13 to Germany and three to the US.
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Americans #Gershkovich & #Whelan included in big prisoner swap, #Turkey’s presidency said
Jailed US #WSJ reporter #EvanGershkovich and ex-US #Marine #PaulWhelan were among 26 prisoners from the #UnitedStates, #Russia, #Germany, #Poland, #Slovenia, #Norway & #Belarus being freed in a major east-west exchange on Thurs.
#MafiaState #Hostages #ForeignPolicy #journalism #InternationalLaw #HumanRights #geopolitics #law
https://www.reuters.com/world/lawyer-ex-us-marine-whelan-jailed-russia-says-she-cannot-confirm-his-whereabouts-2024-07-31/ -
#BBCNews - #Russia to free #Evan #Gershkovich and Paul #Whelan in major prisoner swap
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c29d6k382k5o
#FreeEvanGershkovich #JournalismIsNotACrime -
#RUSSIA RELEASES U.S. REPORTER IN PRISONER SWAP: Evan #Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal journalist, as well as a former American Marine Paul #Whelan jailed in Russia on espionage charges, have been freed due to the major prisoner swap with the United States, Bloomberg reports.
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According to Bloomberg, as part of a prisoner exchange, Russia released WSJ journalist Evan Gershkovich and former US Marine Paul Whelan.
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#Russia sentences Russian #American journalist to more than 6 years
The sentencing of Alsu #Kurmasheva, an editor with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, occurred the same day that Wall Street Journal’s Evan #Gershkovich was sentenced on espionage charges.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/07/22/alsu-kurmasheva-journalist-convicted-russia/
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#BBCNews - US journalist jailed on espionage charges
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg64npg33r3o
US journalist #Evan #Gershkovich has been sentenced by a #Russian court to 16 years in prison on espionage charges, after a secretive trial decried as a "sham" by his employer, the WSJ -
#BBCNews - #Evan #Gershkovich : Waiting for her brother, #Putin 's 'bargaining chip' in #Russian jail
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68679483
#FreeEvanGershkovich #JournalismIsNotACrime
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How $50 for Ukraine led to desperate battle to free LA ballerina held in Russia
Amateur ballerina #Ksenia #Karelina, an American and Russian dual citizen who celebrated the new year with a trip to Istanbul with her partner Chris van Heerden, a South African professional boxer, before heading to Russia to visit family, was 🔸arrested and detained by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) on 28 January🔸 in her hometown of Yekaterinburg, about 1,100 miles east of Moscow.
Karelina may be the latest victim in a chess match over detainees between the US and Russia, which dates back more than 15 years when, in 2008, the US Drug Enforcement Administration arrested #Viktor #Bout, a former Soviet military officer and translator, on conspiracy charges. Bout was eventually traded in 2022 for the WNBA champion #Brittney #Griner, who Russian officials had arrested for possessing vaporizer cartridges containing less than a gram of hash oil.In March last year, Russian officials arrested the Wall Street Journal reporter #Evan #Gershkovich in the same place as Karelina, Yekaterinburg. Gershkovich and the ex-US marine #Paul #Whelan, arrested in 2018, are being held on bogus espionage charges, according to the US government.
In January, Moscow also arrested the English teacher #Robert #Woodland #Romanov, a dual US-Russian citizen, on drug charges.
And now Karelina.
Van Heerden is desperate to raise awareness and money for his partner’s legal defense and return. -
RFERL journalist #Alsu #Kurmasheva has spent 120 days in a #Russian jail
#FreeAlsu
https://pressroom.rferl.org/free-alsu-kurmashevaWSJ journalist #Evan #Gershkovich has spent more than 320 days in a #Moscow prison
#IStandWithEvan
https://www.wsj.com/news/evan-gershkovich -
V Pjotr Sauer:
Yesterday a Moscow court extended the detention of #Evan #Gershkovich through at least Jan. 30 2024, by which time he will have been in custody for 10 months
#EvanGershkovich #JournalismIsNotACrime -
Wall Street Journal journalist #Evan #Gershkovich has been wrongfully detained by #Russia since March, simply for doing his job.
There are roughly 4,707 miles separating Evan’s hometown in Princeton, N.J., from the Moscow prison he is currently being held in. His colleagues set up a running club to cover that distance. #IRunForEvan
https://www.strava.com/clubs/1161501
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#Griner Urges Biden To Bring Home Reporter #Gershkovich
https://www.rferl.org/a/griner-urges-biden-reporter-gershkovich-russia-spying/32345916.html
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"Gershkovich e Assange liberi", appello della Fédération Internationale des Journalistes (FIJ) alla vigilia della Giornata mondiale per la libertà di stampa
@giornalismoTra licenziamenti, intimidazioni, sfruttamento e arresti, la minaccia contro il giornalismo sembra mettere d'accordo Oriente e Occidente, Nord e Sud del mondo
#WorldPressFreedomDay #giornatamondialedellalibertadistampa #Assange #Gershkovich
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In a joint letter to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, 301 foreign #correspondents who reported in #Russia demand Evan #Gershkovich ’s release. The earliest signatory arrived in Moscow in 1964; the most recent left in the past few weeks. They represent, in total, media outlets from 22 different countries.