
A Russian court is set to hear an appeal on Thursday to release a Wall Street Journal reporter deemed by the US to be wrongfully held in a former KGB prison on espionage charges.
Evan Gershkovich, a 31-year-old American citizen, was arrested at a restaurant on March 30 by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), which said it had opened a case against him for collecting what it said were state secrets about a military-industrial complex.