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Congressional Leaders Decry Russia’s Continued Detention of Wall Street Journal Reporter

‘Journalism is not a crime, and reporters are not bargaining chips,’ they wrote.
Congressional Leaders Decry Russia’s Continued Detention of Wall Street Journal Reporter
U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich stands inside a defendants' cage before a hearing to consider an appeal on his extended pretrial detention, at the Moscow City Court in Moscow on Feb. 20, 2024. Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP via Getty Images
Jackson Richman
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The leadership in the House and Senate released a statement on March 29 on the one-year anniversary of the detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in Russia.

“Evan Gershkovich, an American citizen and reporter for The Wall Street Journal, has now spent a year wrongfully detained by Putin’s government. We continue to condemn his baseless arrest, fabricated charges, and unjust imprisonment,” wrote Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.).

Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.
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