Russia’s Federal Security Service said it has detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, a U.S. citizen, in the city of Yekaterinburg on spying allegations.
Gershkovich “is suspected of espionage in the interests of the American government,” the security service known as the FSB said Thursday in a website statement, which didn’t indicate when he was held. The reporter “collected information constituting a state secret about the activities of one of the enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex,” it said.
“The Wall Street Journal vehemently denies the allegations from the FSB and seeks the immediate release of our trusted and dedicated reporter,” the newspaper said in a statement. “We stand in solidarity with Evan and his family.”
