{"id":1913452,"date":"2023-04-12T03:26:58","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T07:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-designates-wsj-reporter-as-wrongfully-detained-by-russia\/"},"modified":"2023-04-12T03:30:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T07:30:18","slug":"us-designates-wsj-reporter-as-wrongfully-detained-by-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-designates-wsj-reporter-as-wrongfully-detained-by-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"US Designates WSJ Reporter as &#8216;Wrongfully Detained&#8217; by Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fus-designates-wsj-reporter-as-wrongfully-detained-by-russia%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1913452&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div>\n<p>The United States government has determined that Evan Gershkovich, an American journalist working for the Wall Street Journal, has been wrongfully detained by the Russian government. This finding contradicts the espionage charges leveled against him and implies that his case is politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p>In its statement, the State Department declared that &#8220;journalism is not a crime.&#8221; The US government pledged its support to Gershkovich and his family. Officials also called for Russia to release former US Marine Paul Whelan, who is likewise deemed to have been wrongfully detained.<\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s FSB security service previously accused Gershkovich of gathering information concerning a secret state defense company. The Wall Street Journal has repeatedly denied that its reporter was spying. US President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken have both voiced their concerns and called for Gershkovich&#8217;s release.<\/p>\n<p>This unjust detention designation enables the US government to allocate more resources toward securing Gershkovich&#8217;s release. It also raises the profile of the issue and signals a call for human rights activists to intensify their efforts to make this case known to the public. <\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has managed to secure the release of twenty-five wrongly detained Americans thus far.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters)\u2014The United States on Monday determined that Russia has &#8220;wrongfully\u00a0detained&#8221; American Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, effectively saying that espionage charges are bogus and that the case is political. &#8220;Journalism is not a crime,&#8221; State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel said in a statement. &#8220;We condemn the Kremlin\u2019s continued repression of independent voices in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1913453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[24012,8518,5046,4280,10589,20677],"class_list":["post-1913452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-designates","tag-detained","tag-reporter","tag-russia","tag-wrongfully","tag-wsj"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1913452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1913453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1913452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1913452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1913452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}