Gershkovich has not been seen since a court hearing in June.
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser thatThe ambassador said that Gershkovich was eager to discuss the news back in the US. He was aware that his family delivered a petition to the United Nations, asking the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to declare him a wrongfully detained person.
The imprisoned journalists also told the ambassador that he has been playing a game of chess with his father by mail. Gershkovich is a veteran reporter who covered Russia and Ukraine for the New York Times and Agence France-Presse before moving to the Wall Street Journal in 2022.He was arrested in March 2023 while working on a story about the Russian arms industry in Yekaterinburg, a city about 2,000 miles east of Moscow in the Ural Mountains.
He is the first American reporter charged with spying in Russia since Nicholas Daniloff, a US News and World Report correspondent, was arrested by the Soviet Union in 1986.
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