UNITED NATIONS (AP) Lawyers for Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich asked a United Nations body on Tuesday to urgently issue an opinion that he has been arbitrarily detained by Russia on espionage charges which are “patently false.” The request to the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention says “Russia has failed to produce […]
Lawyers for Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich asked a United Nations body on Tuesday to urgently issue an opinion that he has been arbitrarily detained by Russia on espionage charges which are "patently false."
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The Wall Street Journal's parent company on Tuesday requested that a panel of UN experts declare its correspondent Evan Gershkovich, who is in Russian jail, as being "arbitrarily detained."The idea is to ask the working group to urgently declare an opinion declaring Evan as having been arbitrarily detained," Conti said.