The United States is working through the process to determine whether Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich’s detention by Russia is “wrongful”, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday, adding it would soon be completed.
“It’s something that we’re working through very deliberately, but expeditiously as well. And I’ll let that process play out,” Blinken said in a news conference in Brussels.
“In my own mind, there’s no doubt that he’s being wrongfully detained by Russia, which is exactly what I said to Foreign Minister Lavrov when I spoke to him over the weekend and insisted that Evan be released immediately,” Blinken said.
Russia’s FSB security service said on March 30 it had arrested Gershkovich, a U.S. citizen, and accused him of gathering information about a Russian defense company that was a state secret.
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