Evan Gershkovich was among 26 prisoners from the US, Russia, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Norway and Belarus being freed in an east-west exchange.
At least nine prisoners ‘disappear’ from Russian jailsJailed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and ex-US Marine Paul Whelan were among 26 prisoners from the United States, Russia, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Norway and Belarus being freed in a major east-west exchange on Thursday, Turkey’s presidency said.
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass defendant’s booth in a Russian courtroom in June.Turkish intelligence had announced that it was coordinating an extensive prisoner exchange, amid signs of a major swap between Russia and Belarus on one side and Western countries including the United States and Germany on the other.
RIA had also reported that four Russians jailed in the United States had disappeared from a database of prisoners operated by the US Federal Bureau of Prisons. It named them as Vinnik, Maxim Marchenko, Vadim Konoshchenok and Vladislav Klyushin.Giannis Papanikos/AP In the West, the dissidents are seen by governments and activists as wrongfully detained political prisoners. All have, for different reasons, been designated by Moscow as dangerous extremists.
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