Falsely jailed WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich has prison term extended AGAIN as he approaches one year behind bars

FALSELY jailed reporter Evan Gershkovich has had his detention extended once AGAIN after being locked up for almost a year by Russia on bogus spy charges. The 32-year-old innocent American will now remain in custody at a notorious Moscow jail until at least the end of June. AFP Gershkovich has already spent 363 long and painful days behind bars. The U.S. ambassador in Moscow today demanded that Russia free Wall Street Journal reporter Gershkovich and said that the Kremlin was using him and other American citizens as pawns. The latest decision to extend Gershkovich’s pre-trial detention “feels particularly painful, as this week marks one year since Evan was arrested and wrongfully detained,” Ambassador Lynne Tracy said. “Evans case is not about evidence, due process, or rule of law. It is about using American citizens as pawns to achieve political ends, as the Kremlin is also doing in the case of Paul Whelan.” Whelan was arrested in Moscow in 2018. He was convicted of spying and sentenced to 16 years in prison in 2020.  Thesun.co.uk is your go to destination for the best celebrity news, football news, real-life stories, jaw-dropping pictures and must-see video. Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/thesun and follow us from our main Twitter account at @TheSun