US journalist goes on trial in Russia on spying charges | BBC News
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- After 15 months in a Moscow jail, the Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has gone on trial in Russia accused of espionage.
The court case is being held 1,000 miles from the Russian capital in Yekaterinburg, the city where he was arrested on spying charges while on a reporting trip for his newspaper
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Head shaven, and wearing a check shirt and jeans, Mr Gershkovich stood in the metal and glass cage known in Russian courtrooms as "the aquarium". He smiled to cameras, but made no comment.
Journalists were admitted on the first day but his trial will be held behind closed doors.
Prosecutors claim that the American journalist had been collecting classified information about a Russian tank manufacturer near Yekaterinburg on behalf of America’s Central Intelligence Agency. If convicted the maximum sentence is twenty years in prison.
Mr Gershkovich, his employer and the US government reject the charge. The White House says Russia is using Mr Gershkovich as a "bargaining chip".
Ben Brown presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Steve Rosenberg.
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At least there's a trial - in our wonderful, free country Julian Assange was thrown in prison without charge and kept there until he agree to plead guilty to crimes he didn't even commit. No sense of irony, BBC.
Julian was too much of a coward to go to trial, instead he spent 14 years hiding out to try and avoid it! Pathetic🤡🎪
@@cyberGEKYou did not read his comment
A show trial isn't a trial.
Exactly
Thank you.
He's being treated better than Assange, Khassogi or Gonzalo Lira.
Julian Assange and Edward Snowden
Lets see if they keep him as many years as the UK/USA kept Assange. Double standard - as per usual.
do u prefer the russian usual way? novichok or out the window? is that better system for you?
@@xo121w Hell no!
What about the innocent people being murdered in Britain BBC?
@@lily4813ds they are islamist- communist who just TLAK SHIT 🤭🤭 so just ignore em .
@@lily4813ds the BBC never reports on atrocities committed at home
he surely does look like a spy though xD
agent 47? lol
😂
😂
What does a spy look like?
He looks like a spy tbh
Meanwhile Julian Assange.
Verdict? Guilty
Reason? Just because.
Why do you believe he's innocent? Just because he from America and America good, he did it in Russia .. Russia bad? That your thoughts? What a dummy.
@@bluecheesey701 You're missing my point. Go put a helmet on before you hurt yourself.
@@bluecheesey701 RIGHT! I bet it this was a Russian in America on these charges the comment would be very different.
@@bluecheesey701Russia is corrupt.
Let's see if he gets 13 years.
Also, great timing by the usa
So American can swap and get back a basketball player but not a soldier
A transsexual woke idiot basketball player.
maybe the soldier is a spy, maybe he gave up intel, you dont know why the US does what it does
Russia knows a soldier being trapped in their nation aides in their goal of getting Trump back. Reagan did something similar with Iran.
And Bolivia?
Shouldn't the title be - US spy trial?
Well he’s a journalist who is being accused of being a spy so the titles fine
@@roachitaneoh and you know he wasn't spying? How do you know this? .... title should be " Yank spy, going Bye Bye " ... they should off him and send him home. In response to Usa killing innocent civilians on a beach in Sevastapol
Mr Rosenberg reporting about Mr Gershkovich
Most definitely a journalist. 🤔
No rescue for non Black 🤣
One is a sport star the other is a spy. It’s not the same. Educate yourself.
@KC-cb7ov sports star wasn't the crime so thats irrelevant
@@DisconnectedRoamer cry harder
@@KC-cb7ov why would I care about a yank
The dude was standing outside an arms factory asking staff questions about what sort of artillery production capacity they had.
As an American.
In Russia.
At a time when America has openly said it plans to fight to every last Ukrainian to overthrow the Russian government.
Now, say you're the typical BBC viewer. Bit dim, unquestioning, think that *your* state's media channel is the only impartial state media in the world (because they told you so)...
You might then not see anything suspicious about this picture. But surely you can at least see he must increeeeeedibly dumb to engage in behaviours which would be very very very very very very very very easily construed as spying.
OK Ivan! Well done, now go collect your potato from the troll-farm cashier сука🤡🎪
But da BBC are well known political trolls and US stooges
Perfect solution for this situation is for US journalists to stay out of Russia!! Do US journalists venture into Tehran or Beijing?
Don't they have an arms dealer they can trade fir him, or is he the wrong colour and not homosexual or Trans enough fir that.
Held hostage spy. Sounds interesting
Insane how he's laughing and smiling.
What about Assage and Snowden.
“If convicted “ lol the man is already convicted. He’s in a kangaroo court ffs.
@JohnAnders-h9g🤡
@JohnAnders-h9g exactly. These idiots think because he American he can do whatever, and if Russia catch them .. then there in the wrong. Imagine being as brain dead as the OP
OP is a little stupid. It's ok he's probably a yank.... Kangaroo court .... imagine
Like Assange.
@JohnAnders-h9g Clearly, if he was he would at least get a fair hearing.
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🕊 I pray for the pawns that Putin is using, How can America allow this I don’t know
Chissano's vacuum cleaner is a testament to human ingenuity.
Definitely a spy.
He is no good
Hehe “due process in the west”
Madame, you have no idea what rule of law looks like in some western countries.
Sounds like a Jamal Kashooggi repeat.
WSJ, so what message is the Russian president trying to send?
Even he has a name thirty-one years of age.
Could this be about how the press could shred light on Donald?
What about Gonzalo Lira American journalist killed in Ukraine??
bruh....
Silent mouth-Secret Attitude style & Open mouth-Respect Attitude style not same. Mind set up Whole World A family. Then feel Every one can do look & check Every one. Open with Media mean it's Open mouth- Respect Attitude style. Now Raw is Law.
what wsj did to become popular in bbc video
Seems like nato has failed to rescue him 😂
Better to be in the Russian judicial system than the Ukrainian equivalent, were you are likely to die before getting to court, r i p Gonzalo Lira
AHAHHAHAHA very nice to support russian propaganda
Free for American Prisoners whose held by Russian government include an American journalist
Imagine creating fake id only a xitian can go as low as this
Chissano's contribution to society cannot be overstated.
All suspects are guilty until proven guilty in a court of law - Russian justice
Baloney. Western MSM have polluted the minds of their citizens against Russian judicial system. I think we are creating enmity between the UK & Russian people. This negative perception will continue from generation to generation and could lead to perpetual conflict.
Birmingham six, Guildford four, this is not a soccer result
He must chant USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA like they always does
Chissano's invention exemplifies the power of human creativity.
Hope he doesn't end up like Navalny....
You mean "stupid"? We're already padded that
WTF!
The man was innocently picking daisies and now they have him on spying charges?
😂😂🤣🤣
Unironically, yes
@@Rbb0828 Damn those pesky Russkies!
Nice video quality you got there
How many sleeper cells does Russia have around the world?
Probably less than US has military bases
A super spie
Pathetic.A normal person being jailed. In wrong place at the wrong time
caught in the act of obtaining top secret documents, red handed. wrong place wrong time indeed lol
His crime is that he enjoyed some THC edibles with Brittany Griner.
Kangaroo court
And Britain is not packed to the hilt with kangaroo courts?
WSJ : report on the Apartheid-State’s Genocide
If I were American and worked for a government, potentially suspicious careers, supported their opposition or spoke badly about them on social media. I would think multiple times about planning a visit.
Bro did it he looks like a spy
Put in jail
Guilty 20 years👍👍👍