On Friday, a Russian court found U.S. reporter Evan Gershkovich guilty of espionage and sentenced him to 16 years in a maximum-security penal colony. The Wall Street Journal, his employer, condemned the verdict as a “disgraceful sham conviction.” Gershkovich, a 32-year-old American who denied any wrongdoing, went on trial last month in Yekaterinburg, accused of…
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