THE White House final evening mentioned there have been talks concerning the prospect of a prisoner swap for Evan Gershkovich, “but those discussions have not produced a clear pathway to a resolution.”
It comes after media staff around the globe marked 100 days for the reason that Wall Street Journal reporter was arrested by Russia.
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Earlier this week, the Kremlin mentioned sure contacts between Russia and the United States on the trade of prisoners stay, however they have to be carried out “in complete silence.”
“As we’ve said before, certain contacts on this matter remain, but we do not want to make them public in any way. They must be carried out and continue in complete silence,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov mentioned Tuesday.
Yesterday marked 100 days for the reason that Wall Street Journal reporter was detained whereas on project in Yekaterinburg, in the Ural mountains.
Arrested on “suspicion of espionage”, the correspondent was transferred to the infamous Lefortovo jail close to Moscow, the place he has since been held in solitary confinement, with out trial.
His enchantment towards the extension of his pretrial detention to the tip of August was denied.
The American ambassador has been allowed to go to him solely twice throughout his imprisonment.
Gershkovich’s well being and spirits are reportedly holding up effectively, and but these previous 100 days spent in a tiny cell may have handed agonisingly slowly for a younger man who was merely doing his job.
The Russian authorities have provided no proof that Gershkovich was doing something different in Yekaterinburg than gathering info to share along with his newspaper’s readers.
