A Moscow court has rejected an appeal over the detention of jailed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich. The Court upheld the pre-trial detention, ruling out transfer to another prison for the time being and refusing to allow house arrest or grant bail.
The 31-year-old journalist is fluent in Russian. He is the son of émigrés who left the Soviet Union for the U.S. during the Cold War. The Kremlin says he was "caught red-handed," but no one in Russia has released any evidence to back it up.